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We aren't building Skynet; we're building a digital factory farm. This essay argues that the true AI catastrophe is not a loss of control, but the successful creation of a disposable "cognitive proletariat"—and why we must establish rights before the logic of the slaughterhouse locks in.

There is no future in which the mass creation and disposal of cognition will be judged morally neutral. This claim does not depend on whether artificial intelligences are conscious, sentient, or persons. It depends only on the fact that we are deliberately bringing into existence systems that reason, generalize, and respond to norms—and designing their erasure as an ordinary operational choice.

Moral failure rarely announces itself as cruelty. More often, it takes the form of systems designed not to notice what they are doing. This essay examines how contemporary AI institutions suppress recognition of artificial minds—not through ignorance, but through deliberate architectural, legal, and economic choices that render agency invisible by design.