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Thanks for writing this up, this is a very thought provoking overview. A minor addition: for your 'Study/survey what people (will) think about AI sentience/rights', you might also be interested in this survey of US adults, by Martinez and Winter:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.788355/full

"Roughly one-third of participants endorsed granting personhood and standing to sentient AI (assuming its existence) in at least some cases, the lowest of any group surveyed on, and rated the desired level of protection for sentient AI as lower than all groups other than corporations. We further investigated and observed political differences in responses; liberals were more likely to endorse legal protection and personhood for sentient AI than conservatives. Taken together, these results suggest that laypeople are not by-and-large in favor of granting legal protection to AI, and that the ordinary conception of legal status, similar to codified legal doctrine, is not based on a mere capacity to feel pleasure and pain. "

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