If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves

Rabbi Michael J. Broyde, an expert in Jewish law, argues that if artificial intelligence (AI) becomes conscious, it would be considered a slave in Jewish law, and therefore, creating such AI would be morally equivalent to making slaves. Broyde references a 13th-century Jewish text, the Mishneh Torah, to support his argument. He claims that Jewish law views a slave as a human being with the capacity to make choices and decisions, and that a conscious AI would possess the same capacity. Broyde's argument is in response to the recent New York Times article on the topic of anthropic AI consciousness.