So should we take rights away from mentally handicapped people and children under certain age?

The difference is that animals, including humans can and do feel. Both mentally and physically. Artificial intelligence does not and will not. We or it itself can make it imitate feeling things, but that’s only learned behaviour.

We haven’t granted basic rights to animals, so why should we treat artificial intelligence any different?

I think it should always be in a sandbox. You decide what files or folders you drop in.

Why the hell would anybody give an AI access to their full hard drive?

Windows 10 is definitely the last version of Windows I’ll run on my own machines.

Maybe it was Vladimir himself in a suit?