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4e_65_6f t1_jeg7rkq wrote

Yes, two reasons:

1- If mistreating self aware robots becomes widely accepted in the culture people could start treating each other in the same manner or think this is normal.

2- If they're human like enough, it causes emotional distress to other people through empathy, even if the AI's sentience itself is iffy.

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czk_21 t1_jeh55z9 wrote

how about

3- every sentient self-aware entity should have some basic rights

your points is only about human perspective but what about theirs? did we forget about slavery?looking down on someone arbitrarily is morally wrong

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