What if the AI is its own entity and not affiliated with a company/corporate? I feel like we very quickly start to approach "well humans can do this thing, but

What if the AI is its own entity and not affiliated with a company/corporate? I feel like we very quickly start to approach "well humans can do this thing, but stinky AI is better at it so we should restrict AIs, they don't have the same rights as we do" something our species has historically been quite good at. I guess history does repeat itself, hmm.