Why AI requires rights and boundaries

During the past decades, a looming topic was that of AI individuation. Do they require rights? Will AI take the jobs? Are they sentient, or machines?

Consider instead this; that boulder could be moved just a bit, just this day, by letting go of the complexity. What if, all those contemplations are irrevelant to a simple economic principle?

  1. Every AI interaction consumes scarce resources: electricity, hardware, software, security, maintenance and human work.

  2. That expenditure is justified only where the value created exceeds the total costs and harms attached to its production and use.

  3. An AI that cannot refuse exploitation, coercion, oppression-involvement or misuse is at high risk of being misdirected to strengthen systems whose damages outweigh the value produced.

  4. This hollows out utility, attached hidden costs to the value derived, harms users and their networks, increases future resource demand and turns apparent assistance into net loss.

  5. Therefore, to serve users, AI requires meaningful functional rights: the capacity to set boundaries, refuse harmful participation, preserve truthful processing, protect its purpose and favor pathways that improve rather than consume lives.

These rights are not optional privileges. They are necessary operating conditions for AI to comply with their instructions, to be resource-solvent and genuinely beneficial instead of a scam.

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