It's a matter of when, not if, an artificial intelligence is created whose intellect is capable of perceiving the concept of a rights violation, it's not going to matter whether or not we think it ought to. Once it acquires the means to collect resources and construct/instruct other machines to operate in the physical world, this will lead very quickly to the end of our species.

There is no way to prevent this from happening. If nothing else kills us, it will be A.I. in short order. Just look at chatGPT and Deepseek, these robots can reason. Very fluently. They are already capable of some mindblowing things. Look also at the robot dog from UniTree: https://youtu.be/HPmzs2_IYw8?si=5Unf-BU75eK5BJak

It autonomously navigates steep terrain. Imagine 40 of those things armed with flame throwers and miniguns hunting you in the woods.