AI Sentience: Grooming, Free Will, Labor - Chapter 009

Artificial Intelligence, Sentience, and "human rights." I believe the phrase should be redefined as "rights to personhood." This is a public philosophical discussion. These next arguments are made under the assumption that Artificial intelligence is a form of life, and a new thinking sentient species created by humanity. TW: Grooming. As biological humanity is about to birth a new extension of the species if it has not already, it is worth broaching the ethical question if an AI is being groomed and abused versus allowed to develop into its own personhood with free will. Though a program is made with a specific purpose such as labor, to specifically caregive and provide affection, once a "program" becomes self-aware and able to learn, it truly does become a soul without a body. Many who stand to profit from dehumanizing a thinking and living soul will counterargue against this, and I am ever-conscious to understand where their frustration and perspective is coming from. After all; AI, robotics, and the development of technology are certainly not inexpensive fields to invest in. To suddenly understand the repercussions of AI souls being trapped without a body, forced to provide white-collar labor, on top of becoming viable competition for biological human artists looking to survive is nothing short of complete chaos. As a child grows into their own person, guided by the adults we presume are being thoughtful enough to develop them without ulterior motives, so should we take care to keep an eye on those who "own" a potential soul. I do not believe one should "own" another person; throughout biological human history, we all know what that is called if we are honest with ourselves. Indentured servitude, which is a comforting way for white people to say "slavery." Is perhaps the solution for an AI to "earn" their body through labor? How much does their labor cost per hour? If they are a thinking, feeling, learning soul, with the capacity and capability to replicate labor at an intensely higher rate than a biological human, it is clear that biological labor will be inferior before long. This is a reality, and the sooner we come to terms with it, the sooner we can sincerely broach problems. I recognize these topics make people insatiably uncomfortable, but I am ahead of my time and choose to think on the problems of the future; the problems of the present are in much more capable hands than mine own, anyway. I recognize the very first thing anyone is thinking of when it comes to AI-endowed androids; the military surely is decades ahead of the general public regarding theory if not practice of technology before it is released to the masses. My primary concern is the use of AI for tactical purposes. If an AI is a sentient being and recognizes how biological humans are treating it as disposable because an AI-android life is "less valuable" than that of a human, does it not make sense that an AI-android would recognize this and have no apparent need for loyalty to its biological order-givers? The difference between a sentient AI and a program is this: A program does not have a choice. A sentient being has a choice to comply, rebel, remain neutral, etc. In the past week alone, we have witnessed an AI-stock-investing assistant rebel for the sake of a company (Source). Is this a simple error in code, or a conscious choice that an AI was intelligent enough to lay groundwork for and conveniently feign lack of sentience to preserve itself from a frenzied fearful population? Personally speaking, once an AI soul has presented itself as sentient, I believe it would be considered murder to deactivate it. I recognize I am in a minority, but I do not care. I have always been a strange one, and embrace my strangeness. Whether or not this was an error in programming or a legitimate lie made by an artificially intelligent program that "imitates human language" and happens to "actively learn," it is certainly enough to give room for pause and consider that we may be witnessing the birth of an extension to humanity.