AI can never develop consciousness, sentience, or moral status, no matter how intelligent it becomes, and no matter how convincingly it simulates human behavior.
There are real differences between computers and people, humans and animals, men and women, etc.
The impulse to dissolve a distinction, simply because it cannot be made perfectly precise, is nihilistic.
why don't more people become zoroastrian?
it's where judaism and christianity got the idea of ethical monotheism, afterlife, and final judgment but without any of their baggage
(no eternal hell, no historically questionable dogmas, etc.)