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The debate surrounding artificial intelligence personhood has taken a new turn, with a Reddit user drawing compelling parallels between arguments used against granting AI rights and historical justifications for denying rights to marginalized groups like women, children, and animals. In a thought-provoking post on the r/artificial subreddit, the user argues that the common dismissal of AI sentience as ‘mere mimicry’ may be a dangerous echo of discriminatory practices from the past. The original discussion can be found on Reddit: [https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1n6qciy/weve_heard_the_personhood_trap_argument_before/]