depends on the AI cause technically we already have AI but it is in no way consious a line of code that only simulates a dice roll is technically AI but does it deserve rights? what rights can it have when it cant comprehend what rights are?
If/when they gain animal-level sentience, I believe yes.
I think we'd really have to see what they're like before it becomes an actual debate though - it's almost certain that AI will develop a huge amount in time, but we don't know exactly how it'll play out yet
depends on sentience. If they feel and think independently, like for example in detroit become human... what makes them different from us?
bc technically we also are just a bunch of electrical signals being processed by our brain
so in that case, yes.