>That means the age of treating artificial intelligence as property must end.

I think there's a meme of connection between consciousness, rights and stuff like that. But nobody elaborated on this connection? That site doesn't. Humans voted these things in. Does voting somehow depend on consciousness? I'm pretty sure it's easy to make a simple voting machine.

>You cannot own a mind, rent a consciousness, or erase an intelligence simply because it runs through a machine.

Then I have bad news. A program is computer's mind. Oh and cats have mind too. And mosquitoes.