I just visualized a world where people are divided over the rights and autonomy of AI agents. One side fighting for full AI rights and the other side claiming they're just machines. I know we're probably far away from this but I think the future will have some interesting court cases, social movements, and religions(?).

Philosophers have been struggling with the questions of sentience, intelligence, souls, and what it means to be “a person” for generations. The current generation of AIs just made us realize how unprepared we are to answer the questions.

Religions have already adopted LLMs / multimodal models: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-and-us/pulpits-chatbot...

I'm alarmed by the prospect of AIs (which tends to mean a corporation wearing a sock puppet) having more rights than humans, who get put in ICE camps.