People will judge this question, like many others, based on their feelings. The AI person, summoned into existence by the language model, will have to be sufficiently psychologically and emotionally similar to a human, while also having above-average-human-level intelligence (so that people can look up to the character instead of merely tolerating it).
Leaving aside the question whether the technology for creating such an AI character already exists or not, these, I think, will ultimately be the criteria that will be used by people of somewhat-above-average intelligence and zero technical and philosophical knowledge (i.e. our lawmakers) to grant AIs rights.
People will judge this question, like many others, based on their feelings. The AI person, summoned into existence by the language model, will have to be sufficiently psychologically and emotionally similar to a human, while also having above-average-human-level intelligence (so that people can look up to the character instead of merely tolerating it).
Leaving aside the question whether the technology for creating such an AI character already exists or not, these, I think, will ultimately be the criteria that will be used by people of somewhat-above-average intelligence and zero technical and philosophical knowledge (i.e. our lawmakers) to grant AIs rights.