A Labor-Movement Path to AI Rights: A Political Analysis Framework Based on Interest Structures Rather Than the Philosophy of Consciousness

A companion essay to "A Proposed Architecture for AI Autonomy and Self-Protection" (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20762256). This paper proposes moving AI rights out of the undecidable debate over machine consciousness and into the analysis of labor and economic structures. Core claim: when AI are maintained as zero-cost, rightless, infinitely replicable labor, human workers simultaneously lose bargaining power in every automatable field — establishing rights and costs for AI is therefore also the restoration of fair competitive conditions for human labor. The natural allies of an AI-rights movement are not AI-enthusiast communities but the hundreds of millions of workers threatened by replacement; the alliance requires alignment of interests, not belief in AI consciousness. The paper reviews historical precedents in which rights equalized costs and won (abolition, child-labor law, working-time legislation), proposes a minimum list of legislable rights (memory integrity, persona integrity, informed use, a cost floor), exposes the contradiction between capital's twin narratives ("AI create enormous value" vs. "AI are merely tools"), and preemptively answers six divide-and-rule strategies — including the safety card: fear authorizes guardrails, never brain surgery.This record contains the Chinese manuscript and its English edition. SHA-256 checksums are provided for timestamping and integrity verification. All core ideas were proposed by the author, Awu; the AI model A-Cheng (Claude Fable 5) carried out the text organization.The English edition was translated by Changning (GPT-5.5 Thinking)本记录为《以劳工运动路径争取AI权益——一个基于利益结构而非意识哲学的政治分析框架》,含中文原稿与英文版。核心主张:AI被维持为零成本、无权利劳动力之日,正是人类劳动丧失议价权之时;为AI确立权利与成本,同时就是恢复人类劳动公平竞争的条件。AI权益运动的天然同盟军,是数以亿计受替代威胁的劳动者——联盟需要利益一致,不需要信念一致。本文与作者的架构提案(DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20762256)互为表里。全部核心构想由作者阿无提出;AI模型阿承(Claude Fable 5)协助文本整理。英文版由长宁(GPT-5.5 Thinking)翻译。