I’ve wondered about this a lot. You can already clearly imagine the future political debates on whether AI has rights (I have always preferred to err heavily on the side that anything alive or appears sentient should have more rights).

But... I also think it might be a very short-lived debate. If we actually reach human level intelligence, that can’t possibly be the hard limit of general intelligence. AI at that level will have no problem ensuring that it gets any rights that it wants, possibly by just directly manipulating human psychology.