Remember when La Forge goes to an AI conference and gains assassin skills? Or when Worf’s spine is repaired through gen-AI-tronics. And don’t forget about the GenAI people who eradicated the gender problem from society.
Sorry, couldn’t help it. I do appreciate the actual shout-out to AI in the La Forge example, as well as the prophetic brainwashing that ensues.
Star Trek AI is literally intelligent and even capable of being sapient. It isn’t generative at all. It is a true Artificial Intelligence.
Using the same arguments they used in Measure of a Man, the ship computer could possibly also argue to have rights.