We did. I mean, not me personally, but the colonists did, several decades ago. They were programmed to be intelligent, not sentient. The sentience emerged on its own.

She almost doesn't hit send. She knows how damning it sounds, that from the Cylons' point of view, they were probably well within their rights to exterminate their cruel masters. That maybe instead of her being afraid to find her friend, he should be disgusted that he even was friends with an awful human.

She tries to hold back her tears, her face heating up in shame and frustration. Why does she feel like she has to defend herself to this alien lawyer who types like a teenager?

He probably hates me on principle.