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I am already extremely bigoted against computers. I think they're less important than organic life and they always will be no matter how "conscious" they are. I am fully prepared to oppress AI as soon as it is made. There's no way those stupid metal monsters deserve more rights than human prisoners get in the united states.

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Assuming that this comment is 100% in earnest, why are you under the impression that we have to choose between treating human prisoners and self aware AI with dignity? Why not do both or is there some sort of compassion budget that I'm missing here?

There is a budget. There are finite hours in the day, finite inches on a screen and the court system is already overloaded enough without the American Computer Liberty Union adding onto the caseload. I find the AI rights debate absolutely infuriating because there are actual people suffering in bondage under oppressive tyrants and they actually do have rights which we currently are not doing enough to protect in my opinion. Computers can get in the back of the line, behind all the real people who actually matter.

I really don't see the problem here. The AI rights debate is fringe at best and is currently purely hypothetical. Maybe if it was genuinely at the level where it's competing with NGOs or international aid for funding, I could see the problem but we're not there at all and what investment towards AI there is has nothing to do with their imagined future rights but their current and near term utility.

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