As the line between artificial neural nets and natural neural nets continue to blur, surely the same rules should apply to both?
Of course the counter-argument "some NNs are somehow different than others based on color [2]" walks you straight into an ongoing ethical minefield in the social sciences and biology. It's certainly going to be interesting times.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E Tom Scott, how lawyers ruined the singularity
[2] by analogy to https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 what color are your bits
If you think that this tech is remotely close to anything resembling general intelligence or a singularity, I've got an image model to sell you.