/lit/ - Literature

Please recommend everything you can think of on these (and related) topics. Fiction, philosophy, social science, anything.

What are the deepest, most nuanced, most insightful things you've read on the subject of non-human intelligence? Whether it's outright AI, anthropomorphic or otherwise, or the idea of algorithms and adaptive computing being dangerous.

I'm particularly interested in things that take seriously the possibility that MI would be sentient, or "sentient-like," and deserving of rights. There's gotta be some crazy vegan philosophy out there that sees the creating of artificial minds, let alone the designer-programming of those minds to be "useful," as one of the most hideous and barbarous things we could ever do as a species.