I agree with the other top-level comment next to yours (at the time of writing): when we're willing to enforce consequences for them in the same way we would for people. If I violate laws, I can get put in jail, and then I (most likely) can't use any computers until I get out. To consider an AI a person, it needs to have legal liability in the same way a fleshy person does.
replyIf there’s a consensus that AI is sentient and conscious and there are ways it can act autonomously, probably.
replyCorporate personhood has already been disastrous enough. We don't need to compound it with AI personhood on top.
replyConsciousness?
replyEh. No one has been able to prove to my satisfaction that they're conscious, or even simply define what it is that they claim to possess. Pick something else.
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