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In view of the controversial debate about what properties and abilities we can ascribe to systems based on generative AI, I shall examine the question of the extent to which LLMs solve certain tasks in a very different way compared to the way humans solve such tasks and whether we might still be justified in ascribing agency and socio-cognitive abilities to them. To this end, I will discuss benchmarks and their appropriateness for drawing conclusions about socio-cognitive abilities or the way AI systems actually process information, addressing issues such as data contamination and robustness. Utilizing the distinction between \u201ccompetence without comprehension\u201d and \u201ccompetence with comprehension\u201d, and the idea that comprehension comes in degrees by Daniel Dennett, I will investigate whether there might be socio-cognitive abilities in artificial systems that could constitute something in between. 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