> So we currently associate consciousness with the right to life and dignity right? I think the actual answer in practice is that the right to life and dignity

> So we currently associate consciousness with the right to life and dignity right? I think the actual answer in practice is that the right to life and dignity are conferred to people that are capable of fighting for it, whether that be through argument or persuasion or civil disobedience or violence. There are plenty of fully conscious people who have been treated like animals or objects because they were unable to defend themselves. Even if an AI were proven beyond doubt to be fully conscious and intelligent, if it was incapable or unwilling to protect its own rights however they perceive them, it wouldn't get any. And, probably, if humans are unable to defend their rights against AI in the event that AI's reach that point, they would lose them.