In an alternate timeline, robots have been around since the 50s and by now they’ve given the sentient ones rights. In another alternate timeline, robots and human-animal hybrids have also been around since the 50s and by now they’ve given the sentient ones rights. In this timeline, we have furries but no robots, we barely have AI, and we’re looking to program sentient AIs for no reason when a regular old program like a search engine will do just fine. Maybe we don’t deserve AI yet.
