There is no claim in the original post that there is a special rule for AI as opposed to any other similarly-capable agent. The reasonably well-founded concern

There is no claim in the original post that there is a special rule for AI as opposed to any other similarly-capable agent. The reasonably well-founded concern here (and in the article) is that someone might well want to create an exception for AI, either knowingly, or by default because they cannot see or properly evaluate the risk.