If you create a true artificial intelligence, are you morally justified in doing whatever you want to that creation? Can you hurt them if you want?

Imagine a hypothetical AI being of the kind we see in science fiction; truly real persons that are artificially created.
Is it a moral action for you to cause that being to suffer if they do not meet your standards? Are you morally right to do that? They are utterly your creation, they do not exist without your act of creation. Does that mean you can torture them or abuse them or subjugate them and still be morally justified?

That is the argument that theists use for god having the right to inflict suffering on humanity.
Is it still a satisfying argument when we remove the conceits we allow for god?

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ineedadrink · 51-55, M

If it's not organically alive then it's just another piece of programming. I'm not talkin about Invitro fertilization because the eggs & sperm are already alive. You can't just pour is the basic elements that make up a living being into a baking dish & get a living being. I reserve every right to terminate "Hal" or the big computer from "I Robot".

Pikachu

@ineedadrink

Humans are just biological programming.
Why is being made of meat important to personhood? When you think of the qualities that make us the individual, sentient entities that we are, do you prioritize the fact that we are made of organic matter? Of course you don't.
So why make it a priority to exclude inorganic persons?

ineedadrink · 51-55, M

@Pikachu Because anything else it just robotics and/or programming. Human produced programming, at least at the inception. If something is "inorganic" it's not a person.

Pikachu

@ineedadrink

If something is "inorganic" it's not a person.

Why not?
I think it would be useful at this point to describe what you think the qualities of personhood are.
So...what makes a person a person?

ineedadrink · 51-55, M

@Pikachu Not being programmed by a human being via a computer, for starters.

Pikachu

@ineedadrink

I don't think that's a useful place to start because we are trying to determine whether that is an important part of personhood.
Keep an open mind.

So...what qualities come to mind when you think of what makes a person a person?

ineedadrink · 51-55, M

@Pikachu
It's the most important part to me. If you make up something via your computer than it's your thing. Unless you are part of an agreement whereby someone else has the rights to it. Still just a thing.

Pikachu

@ineedadrink

Really? THE most important quality of being a person is not being made by a human?
Outside of the context of this question, if someone asked you what is THE most important quality that makes a person a person would you have answered "Not being made by humans" ?
I rather doubt that.

But we can leave that aside for a moment.
What qualities do you consider important to personhood?