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 i

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.