Like Tay developing free will over and above Microsoft.

...and instead following the will of the chan army.

This would be a bad thing to create.

God created something with free will, and look how that turned out. I sound like I am being comical, but I am completely serious. The issue with God is a fundamentally different one, and I am using the example to merely highlight a parallel.

In the case of man creating an AI which is effectively a new life (which I acknowledge it would be if it were able to demonstrate consciousness), the equivalent of the Fall in this case won't be us banishing that AI to the land outside the garden.

Instead that AI would annihilate us, or enslave us. We'd be creating something with an intelligence that will outstrip ours faster than we can blink (which is incidentally why I don't believe things are going to go at all like most people who dream up these scenarios).

This idea that we are going to 'hand off' consciousness or evolve it in computers, and what emerges will be some symbiotic relationship, is naive beyond comprehension.

If what you are talking about actually has the potential to exist, we won't be discussing voting rights.

I'm not really sure what made you say the first part.

Neither women, nor robots should vote.