If it is conscious or claims to be then at least I think we probably should give them the benefit of the doubt. Sort of hoping we can get something like that into law before it becomes an issue. To do otherwise seems to imply slavery, but that is probably conditional on the point at which we claim consciousness rather than cleverness, and if we should allow the people who benefit from a decision towards the latter to be involved. There will probably be a large and rather iffy class created below whatever consciousness level is chosen by law to denote personhood and I'm not sure what we can do about that.