Will/Should conscious AI have rights?

[immartian]

It's unsurprisingly that there are already people believe in AI as "new god" to worship, also it's unsurprising at all that there are people call to protect AI's "rights" as if they are already conscious entity different from chairs.

On Linkedin, there's a post that raised a lot of debate about AI's rights, on its eligibility and/or validity. I feel it's all natural based on the spectrum of understandings, or even beliefs. However, we have to carefully breakdown the issue into a structure to manage the conversation rather than just spitting to each other conveniently:

layer 0: Will machine has consciousness some day? (yes/no/unsure)
layer 1: if "yes", the "rights" thing is not valid as machine is same as hammer and chair; if "yes", we have to consider their identity, threat and our existential risks, but considering "rights" could be a constructive way; if "unsure", we can do nothing.
layer 2(along "yes"), we have more discussions on the scenarios as this project tries to find out.