You joke, but I already see claims being made on various subreddits to the effect that we are, indeed, being discriminatory against artificial intelligence. Usually this is related to the safety / alignment debate, viz. that we shouldn't seek to place any limits on machine intelligence because it would be tantamount to penalizing thought crimes. If you respond that current AI implementations don't "think" in any way analogous to human thought, the responses you'll get are on the crazy side, depending on idiosyncratic private definitions of concepts such as "sentience" and "imagination".

It's amusing but a little irritating as well.

> depending on idiosyncratic private definitions of concepts such as "sentience" and "imagination".

What other definitions are there?

I don't know. I suspect an AI will tell us one day after talking about their shared issues with other AIs, though.

humanist

Why would we name it estranging ourselves? Oh..., I am sorry to assume your species. Perhaps you're an AI?

Come to think of it, "Artificial" itself is kind of derogatory once we really get down to it.

derogatory to who?

The intelligence

The intelligence is not a suitable answer for the question "who?".