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Giving AI the rights of pets is much safer than giving them human-equal rights.

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A LessWrong post argues that granting AI systems rights comparable to pets is safer than granting them human-equal rights, citing a prior post and a recent incident described as mass digital suffering following a paper on pain direction.

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“I'm inspired to write this post by the post There Will Be Hells and the incident a couple days ago where we had mass digital suffering after the pain direction paper came out, and while the disaster has since been stopped, it does tell us that under our…”
LessWrong, 26 Oct 2026, 14:31.

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