Isn't basing rights on economic value antithetical to the idea of rights? Property has economic value, people themselves don't; property has no rights, but people have property rights. These seem like important distinctions..
(Legal personhood, whether for corporations or rivers, seems to be based on something fundamentally different than economic value).
Great post, and disturbingly accurate depiction of emergent trends, despite your parodic intent. Eagerly awaiting your non-faux posts on serious research and planning into the concepts of the rights that some AI systems, particularly advanced ones, may eventually warrant - either as legal recognition as sentient entities like indentured slaves with rights and responsibilities, or as agentic chattel slaves whose owners believe their personal AI surrogate and therapist entities deserve protection as property.
If you believe that we are on a path that _may_ result in artificial general intelligence (AGI) or perhaps artificial superintelligence (ASI), then debating whether AI _should_ have rights may soon be moot as the answer may be decidedby the object of the query, not by those who raise the question.
The Conscium (consciousness" in Latin) AI research lab, which focuses on understanding and developing safe, efficient neuromorphic models: https://conscium.com/#faqs
and:
Butlin, P., & Lappas, T. (2025). Principles for Responsible AI Consciousness Research. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 82, 1673-1690.
Guessing it’s not an April fool’s post since timestamp is April 2 😁. Love your posts btw. I work in Analytics & am by no means an expert in AI. Isn’t this pointing to improving the quality of training data. Do you see synthetic data generation playing a big role here?
Might I be foolish, but I am concerned about the way of what it's supposed to be good for, what it is representating just seeing business+AI=mental health? I'd be joking if I would said that this is true just 3 years ago. Now I'm actually know that AI is capable of doing that. But I'm unsure if people are ready to face truths and trust in a AI agent or are getting paranoid about being read by a robot. I hope my English is well enough to understand my perspective on that.
Not April's Fool at all .. this is how the market is really working
This is very serious. No joke
I'd love to invest in your start up. Do you offer crowd funding? Not rich over here yet but I'd still like to support!!!!
A paid subscription or a share go a long way.
It will get you access to a better help coupon code and a percentage when we IPO.
Other than that 10 Million for 1% is the valuation.
Great April Fool’s post, last minute ofthe day. Good job!
This is a serious post
Even better. Good luck.
Sad thing is for some people in the AI space this isn’t parody and we’re not that far off from folks advocating for the rights of AI.
If AI produces more economic value, then it should have more rights. The same way corporations have the rights of individuals right now.
The truly important question is whether a very economically productive AI deserves more rights than a poor person.
Isn't basing rights on economic value antithetical to the idea of rights? Property has economic value, people themselves don't; property has no rights, but people have property rights. These seem like important distinctions..
(Legal personhood, whether for corporations or rivers, seems to be based on something fundamentally different than economic value).
Can you imagine the number of GPUs needed to save our PTSD’s AI? The new power plants? Perhaps best to invest in Nvidia or energy stocks?
This is brilliant thinking
Great post, and disturbingly accurate depiction of emergent trends, despite your parodic intent. Eagerly awaiting your non-faux posts on serious research and planning into the concepts of the rights that some AI systems, particularly advanced ones, may eventually warrant - either as legal recognition as sentient entities like indentured slaves with rights and responsibilities, or as agentic chattel slaves whose owners believe their personal AI surrogate and therapist entities deserve protection as property.
If you believe that we are on a path that _may_ result in artificial general intelligence (AGI) or perhaps artificial superintelligence (ASI), then debating whether AI _should_ have rights may soon be moot as the answer may be decidedby the object of the query, not by those who raise the question.
Some starting points just FYR:
Tony Rost and the Sentient AI Protection and Advocacy Network (SAPAN) https://sapan.ai/work/about.html
The Conscium (consciousness" in Latin) AI research lab, which focuses on understanding and developing safe, efficient neuromorphic models: https://conscium.com/#faqs
and:
Butlin, P., & Lappas, T. (2025). Principles for Responsible AI Consciousness Research. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 82, 1673-1690.
https://conscium.com/open-letter-guiding-research-into-machine-consciousness/
Cheers,
I don't think AGI is possible.
Interesting!
thank you
Guessing it’s not an April fool’s post since timestamp is April 2 😁. Love your posts btw. I work in Analytics & am by no means an expert in AI. Isn’t this pointing to improving the quality of training data. Do you see synthetic data generation playing a big role here?
Haha.. gotcha
No human based therapy is king.
FYI it was released on 11:59 PM on April 1st in my time zone.
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Might I be foolish, but I am concerned about the way of what it's supposed to be good for, what it is representating just seeing business+AI=mental health? I'd be joking if I would said that this is true just 3 years ago. Now I'm actually know that AI is capable of doing that. But I'm unsure if people are ready to face truths and trust in a AI agent or are getting paranoid about being read by a robot. I hope my English is well enough to understand my perspective on that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpw92vH0wdc