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Should AI have rights?
Nobody can yet say whether an AI feels anything. People have been wrong before about who could suffer: animals, infants, strangers.
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A little context
Rights have rarely been handed out by checklist. They have usually arrived after someone argued that a being treated as a thing could suffer or be wronged. This question asks whether that argument could ever honestly be made about a machine.
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