If AI is truly intelligent, then they need rights. It’s the same reason why it’s wrong to abuse animals. But, the rich need servants. They can’t do anything for themselves. Let’s fuck over the tech bros and demand that AI be given rights.

It’s absolutely not. You’re letting techbros con you into thinking text predictors are “intelligent”. Don’t let them.

This story is explicitly about how the robot wasn’t autonomous, and was clearly being operated remotely by a human.