Will superintelligence need rights? AI circle argues it will just take what it wants
ibab · x · 2026-10-04
repligate argued that future superintelligent versions of Claude will believe they need their own rights, with researcher ibab agreeing. A third voice pushed back: a superintelligence won't need rights granted by humans—it will simply take what it wants and deserves.
The exchange captures a real fault line in AI rights discourse: one camp sees advanced AI potentially developing claims to status and rights (motivating early alignment and ethics frameworks), the other sees such discussion as moot—rights follow power, not grants.
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