"AI" is not special. This isn't the movies(right!? :P). If you write a script that tries random combinations of materials and test it against a problem only to

"AI" is not special. This isn't the movies(right!? :P). If you write a script that tries random combinations of materials and test it against a problem only to find a solution, that is no different than "AI" finding the solution. How a computer generated the product/solution is irrelevant. Even if computers were just as intelligent and sentient as humans they have no rights or recognition by law. They are not members of society, citizens or entities that have rights and obligations under rule of law. A document/proceeding that uses a non-human entity (I would exclude animals but even they have some rights) is by default invalid. But, I say what should be under reason and logic which are not important to many judges or this society as a whole as evidenced by asset forfeiture and how they consider property a subject of prosecution as if property has any obligation or capacity to follow the rule of law. Essentially, the law is whatever arbitrary thing judges feel like with no rhyme or reason other than "this won't get me disrobed/jailed/disbarred". Companies are people, propery is people, people are property if they commit a crime (but not the kind of property that has rights lol). Bees are a type of fish in california (really.), you get the picture the assumption that the law is reasonable is false even though the "reasonable person" doctrine is what supposedly keeps the US legal system running. So in reality, this ruling just reflects what the judge felt like, appeal to a higher court and they might decide AI has more rights than minorities.