Should sentient artificial intelligence have human rights?

This position holds that an artificial intelligence which became genuinely sentient would be owed rights. Proponents argue that moral status follows from the capacity to suffer and to have interests, not from being biological, and that denying it would repeat past exclusions.

This position holds that even a sentient artificial intelligence should not hold human rights. Opponents argue that such rights are grounded in human embodiment, mortality and membership of a human community, and that sentience alone cannot be verified from outside.