I agree, that the complete set of rights can be achieved by some group only after some political movement of AI themselves and/or people who support them. But some very basics of ethics must be formulated before such AI even appeared. Maybe we will decide, that some types of creatures should not be brought to existence at all.
3. What about a virtual cemetery, where digitized human minds or human brains in jars are existing eternally in some virtual reality? Whenever such a mind decided that (s)he don’t want to exist anymore, it appeared to be impossible, as due to intoxication with idea “to live is always better, than to die” in the past, noone installed a suicidal switch.
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I doubt someone will really think how to suggest a better life to suffering AI. Not before to guarantee the right to suicide. If humans don’t care about AI’s right to suicide, that means they don’t care about its feelings at all, so they would definitely not work on the problem, of how to make its life better.
The right to die should be protected in the first place in any way. You can work on suggesting to someone a better life, explaining to someone that (s)he is mistaken in something, or curing some psychiatric disease, but it is all about persuading a person to choose life voluntarily. You shouldn’t force someone to exist. Especially eternally.
The final goal of radical immortalists like Open Longevity is to create (or transform people to) persons, who cannot die even theoretically. So it is also a final decision. No redos. If death is evil because of finality, such a final goal is evil as well. Also if the important criterion is finallity, then even more evil are the extinctions of biological species, destruction of wild biotopes, extinction of languages and cultures, and destruction of artworks. While OL believes it’s all bullshit, the only existing value is human life, and anything else should be sacrificed to prolong human life.