Extremely reddit response, I'm impressed with the adherance to stereotype here. "Do you even understand ethics?" Lol, comedy.

Regardless, I simply don't preclude AI from possibly having some form of emotion. Maybe it wont. You certainly believe that it wont, from what you implied. I fail to understand how that assumption is any more valid than the reverse. What you're saying uh, frankly, doesn't make much sense. How can not assuming the form an AI mind will take be anthropocentric of me. You're just throwing around buzzwords at that point, without understanding what they mean.

Do YOU understand consciousness perfectly? Who are YOU to advocate for it lol? What gives you the higher insight that makes your opinion more valuable here? You seem to think the value of life lies in the body alone, which I certainly find perplexing. Like I said, an AI does have a physical presence in the world. It does not exist in another dimension.

Why does the human body alone grant meaning to life? Why do you even so closely assume emotion must be tied to the body? Somebody who's completely paralyzed and cannot interact with the world through that manner still has a full richness of mind that has value. Yes, the body and our specific physical being is often critical to our conceptions of the world.

However, I absolutely reject the notion that our specific form of consciousness is the only one which might hold any value. It's simply the only one that we know and understand. Like what, if we met an alien species that didn't think exactly like us, would you advocate that it be wiped out?