I suppose if I were to apply natural rights to AI one would say that the creator grants them rights if anyone would do it. The problems with this whole thing are multitude. IP law would be a problem since it would imply that the AI code is owned by a corporation. So then we get into slavery... I mean I have thought for a while that AI might be the thing that breaks our IP law nonsense finally. Not that it isn't already shot full of logical holes on how it is and isn't applied.