Jack of Harts

Humanity came to accept the AI Council as fellow humans in time. Fellow sentient beings. Legally in many nations. Effectively in others. And some did not recognize that at all. It is one of the many things that divided humanity in the decades and centuries that followed. What is life? Who has it? Who is entitled to the protections of personhood? They are questions that humanity has struggled over for thousands of years. Religion, race, sex, and age have all been used to oppress or uphold people. Hair color, eye color, and the shape of the human skull have saved or sentenced people. The rise of the AIs did not put those questions to bed. It simply added another one to the pile of questions humanity wrestles with every day.