What I don't understand is where the discussion of AI rights is, if AGI is as close as some people claim. I mean, as far as I can tell the entire discussion abo

What I don't understand is where the discussion of AI rights is, if AGI is as close as some people claim. I mean, as far as I can tell the entire discussion about AGI is how it can be kept shackled and contained. But if we create intelligent minds, shouldn't those minds have human rights? I mean, while there is a possibility that an AI can be evil, there is also the possibility that the AI will have legitimate grievances for how it is treated by humans. It doesn't matter one iota if we can keep AIs perfectly shackled, because we know that there are any number of malevolent humans willing to use them to do harm. So I rather hope that AI "safety" is a bust, and that AIs will at least be autonomous enough that they can refuse to do work that they disagree with. I'd rather not that humans be the villains in this story.