EFF isn't necessarily a fan of the way that current institutions of governance or the law operate, but when those institutions attempt to interfere with the development of technology, we step in to try to mitigate the damage and make the case for sensible outcomes.
In the case of general-purpose human level AI, which to be clear is an extremely speculative kind of technology that might not happen in our lifetimes, I don't think anybody knows how humanity would deal with it. If it does happen, I think the biggest responsibility of participants in that process would be to minimize the risk of instability and conflict while humans and the new species (possibly species, plural; possibly not a species at all), figured out how to relate to each other.
How best to accomplish that is largely a very difficult and mostly unanswered research question, though you can find some pointers to some interesting early work in the safety section of the Notebook.