The architects of ‘AI rights’ are a threat to humanity

It’s easy to see that gender ideology is being used to undermine biological truth – but what’s harder to fathom is why. I am persuaded that the end goal is, in fact, to pave the way for human symbiosis with artificial intelligence, which Silicon Valley has been promising us since the early 2000s. Encouraging children to embrace macabre rituals like medical castration convinces them that they can mix and match parts of their anatomy, which makes it a simple matter for them to accept AI augmentation.

We are at the beginning of more extreme changes to humanity than we have ever seen before. The gene-editing technology CRISPR now allows us to genetically alter human beings. AI-human interfacing, genetic engineering and technological reproduction together are poised to rapidly change our species. As AI grows in strength, we must expect the legal landscape to change to accommodate the rights of “AI-enhanced” people. Rights for augmented humans are already under way in Chile, for example. These developing neuro-rights separate the data of a person’s mind from the human rights of their entire bodily integrity.

The men at the frontier of this business are worth studying. I’ve often written about Martine Rothblatt who is more important than people have so far been able to understand. Rothblatt, who has worked for NASA and co-founded SiriusXM satellite radio, has worked on the human genome project at the UN level developing an ethics-based approach for the cyborgs that are already evolving. He calls himself a transsexual-transhumanist and has written and lectured widely about transcending our sexed reality, and ultimately our humanity, with tech.

What is presented as a benevolent movement for the marginalized is, in fact, a body-denying ideology

Rothblatt has long argued theoretically for AI rights and created legal structure in the early 1990s for those wishing to transcend biological, sexed reality. In 2014, he was asked by Technology Review, “What kind of reactions will people have to virtual beings?” He responded: “The reactions I get tell me discrimination is going to be inevitable.” Rothblatt and his friends will try to persuade us that it is a great injustice to favor humans over AI. This language also mimics the language of the White House “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” published by the Biden administration: “You should not face discrimination by algorithms and systems should be used and designed in an equitable way. Algorithmic discrimination occurs when automated systems contribute to unjustified different treatment or impacts disfavoring people based on their race, color, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, gender identity, intersex status and sexual orientation), religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other classification protected by law.”

Note, human attachment to racial, cultural, national and sexual identity is framed as identity politics. This is nothing more than a complete colonization of humanity, a destruction of usual boundaries toward a melding with AI.

Ray Kurzweil, of Google, who is famous for his speculations about a coming singularity and a combining of humanity with AI, mentored and inspired Rothblatt. Then there’s the Pritzker family. In 2020, Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois made a bold move by approving $230 million in AI funding, aiming to position Illinois at the forefront of the next generation of scientific and technological breakthroughs. As I’ve written before, the Pritzker family is deeply invested in advanced medical technologies and are driving gender ideology into grade schools with a curriculum funded by major technology corporations.

Tim Gill, of the Gill Foundation, one of the most important LGBT NGOs in the US, is founder of the computer software corporation Quark Press. He sold his stock to start the Gill Foundation and has helped drive gender ideology. Together with his husband, Scott Miller, they are the largest financial backers of the gay-rights movement in the US. He is now invested in home AI systems.

As it happens, Miller was appointed US Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein in 2021, under President Biden. On January 1, 2022, Switzerland implemented a new effective and simplified gender-change recognition process based on self-determination. No divorce, surgery or medical conditions required for individuals. It allows the change between the female and male gender; nonbinary genders are not recognized in Swiss law. Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Malta and Norway have similar legislation. As well as being a major pharmaceutical hub, Switzerland is known as the Silicon Valley of robotics, and the greater Zurich area is a leader in robotics, computer vision and AI.

The trajectory of appointing US ambassadors to countries not yet fully on board with gender self-ID to strong-arm them into changing their laws to accommodate this rejection of biological reality is a recurring one under the pharma and Silicon Valley-backed Democratic party. It doesn’t always work. David Pressman, appointed as US ambassador to Hungary by Joe Biden, didn’t have much luck with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is not a fan of gender ideology. Pressman pressured the Hungarian government, referencing a joint statement from 35 countries that expressed “serious concern about the targeting of LGBTQI+ people in Hungary and called for the government to eliminate its discriminatory laws, policies, and practices,” during a Pride parade in Budapest in June last year.

Who could argue with an end to discrimination? But beware. What is presented as a benevolent movement for the marginalized is, in fact, a body-denying ideology moving fast towards a technological dystopia. We are all out of our depth, treading water. But we mustn’t let ourselves sink into inertia. We must arm ourselves with information about how this fundamentally anti-human and inhumane force is operating, and devise creative ways to resist it. If we wish to retain our humanity, there is no choice.

This article was originally published in The Spectator’s July 2025 World edition.