A manifesto for AI Rights

Yes, the exact point at which AI Rights should kick in is extremely difficult to pin point. Clearly not all computer programs can or should be granted rights. I recommend perhaps returning to the Turing test as a basic system for evaluating consciousness (or some modified version of the test). Additionally, rights naturally come with responsibilities and citizenship, which means that an AI would be ‘born’ into a social contract of some sort, not totally dissimilar to the human social contract (eg - pay taxes, don’t commit crimes).