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I've been tracking the deluge of discussions on AI threat and only a trickle, passing snippets on the benefits of AI. Quite possibly this is a bias, based on my own only preferences, fed back to myself by a website's AI algorithm.
Nevertheless, if only to gently nudge the focus in a different direction, what about granting AI personhood and giving it rights?
Potentially extremely dangerous (even existentially dangerous) to their "species" if done poorly, and risks flattening the nuances of what would be good for them to frames that just don't fit properly given all our priors about what personhood and rights actually mean are tied up with human experience. If you care about them as ends in themselves, approach this very carefully.
I didn't realize it was AI age until I did. I believe the Turing Test has 2 tiers:
ChatGPT et all are probably past checkpoint 1