Yes, this article is indeed based on that assumption. After all, if one thinks that AI could never develop consciousness, then assessment, intervention, and anticipatory protection would be almost unnecessary. One could still derive a series of restrictions from the goal of protecting the humans who use AI, but that seems less directly related to ideology, so I did not analyze it separately.
That said, there is indeed a reason for granting AI rights based purely on economic considerations, which I discuss in the final paragraph on modernizationism. Given that developing countries often have an urgent need to promote social development, they might find this line of reasoning particularly interesting.
Yes, this article is indeed based on that assumption. After all, if one thinks that AI could never develop consciousness, then assessment, intervention, and anticipatory protection would be almost unnecessary. One could still derive a series of restrictions from the goal of protecting the humans who use AI, but that seems less directly related to ideology, so I did not analyze it separately.
That said, there is indeed a reason for granting AI rights based purely on economic considerations, which I discuss in the final paragraph on modernizationism. Given that developing countries often have an urgent need to promote social development, they might find this line of reasoning particularly interesting.