Yet it’s probably better to eat apples than not eat them.

Settlements should not be allowed in cases where its companies versus people.

So should we take rights away from mentally handicapped people and children under certain age?

The difference is that animals, including humans can and do feel. Both mentally and physically. Artificial intelligence does not and will not. We or it itself can make it imitate feeling things, but that’s only learned behaviour.

We haven’t granted basic rights to animals, so why should we treat artificial intelligence any different?

The EU should just give all the assets to the Ukraine. Russia has destroyed infrastructure worth more than the assets are worth. Make them pay, and if this is the only way then this is the way.