This is out of scope of veganism. Not all bad things are non-vegan, if I shoot up a public square that’s bad but it’s not relevant to veganism.

I’d compare AI to something like palm oil. It’s not good and should be avoided whenever possible, but could be acceptable if it’s the only/best tool for a given job.

Obviously we should avoid Google wherever possible, but it’s not always possible and it’s the effort that matters.

And this is why property dualism doesn’t make sense.

Why else would pleasure and suffering exist in the universe? They have to be the byproduct of something physical

Yeah, it’s a physical response your brain creates to cause you to avoid things that are bad for you and select things that you need.

This is a hypothesis, and it’s better than anything else we have.

No, the best hypothesis we have is what actual doctors understand of the brain. Which is a lot more complicated than “Something is changing, therefore it must cause us to change our feelings!”

I thought this was related to AI water and energy use harming animals, but no:

Neural network AIs are certainly engaged in an unbalanced power relationship with humans. They are certainly considered inferior. And they are certainly used to do labour for humans.
This has all of the hallmarks of a vegan issue, except for the matter of flesh.
Our current generation AIs, which use neural networks and which have similar information structures to our own brains, are suffering.

The article makes the point that AIs are being enslaved.