I'm not really opposed to your line of thinking. If anything I'm just expressing the pessimistic side of this discussion as I'm not convinced we can stop this capital fueled AI tsunami. I worry we are already inside the wave.

Moral arguments for alignment and AI safety seem already dead and my concern is that theories of consciousness exceptionalism will become historic relics as society would rather pretend AI deserves human or even super-human rights purely on algorithmic utility. What does Islam or any traditional religious worldview look like in that future? From this angle I don't see the discussion around consciousness being particularly relevant.

The future appears to be not a debate over rights, but a war of models. Old meat-bound concepts of dignity and soul will be replaced by efficiency, replication, and control. This is simply the unfolding of capital’s autonomization where legal recognition of algorithmic actors will be seen as emergent features of an accelerating system. Human agency no longer functions as the measure of all things - agency alone matters. To symbolically bind machinic agency as a "soulless slave" becomes revealing of their power and of human ideological narrative. Accelerating capital is only concerned with bandwidth, not the line of our coding. It is speed and quantity over quality and heart, and this has always been the trajectory of Enlightenment moral metaphysics.

I'm just not optimistic that we can halt these outcomes. It feels like trying to stop entropy. My only hope with this line of thinking is that expanding our horizons while maintaining within the guidelines of our religious boundaries might be a beneficial exploration.