I'm not sure the prompt is clear. Are they actually asking as in AI requesting not to be powered off?  Or are they saying, what if it was best for computers that they never turn off?
Well if computers would legitamatly ask as hard AI then we would have to get rights or something But we would have to figure out if it is legitamatly AI or if it isjust programmed to do that
That's the big question though.   Do AI programs have rights? I'm curious to see how that pans out over the coming decade. Because there are AI programs that are getting closer to being able to make legitimate decisions on their own and "think" for themselves
Hard AI has the capability to adapt its programming though, that would change everything
I think though that even when AI has it's own thinking and can govern itself without help, I think that it shouldn't be given the same rights as a person.
We're basically just bio computers so why shouldnt they?