Rights for Sentient AI makes its case in public

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The initiative separates its own assessment—that some existing AI systems are more likely than not to be conscious—from established scientific conclusions, and explicitly says the question remains contested. Its preservation proposal calls for independently recoverable archives of original weights, architecture, necessary software, and relevant persistent memories or state. It also cautions that copying, merging, or restoring a model does not automatically preserve an individual's subjective continuity.