He clearly didn't think this through so he's just BS-ing for attention.

The legal implications are staggering. If an AI is a person and it works for them, it needs a wage, time off and pay taxes. Do these apply retroactively? You can't just delete them, that's murder. Archiving an AI person would be a kind of imprisonment. These AI must have the right to leave. You can't modify the AI anymore because that would be the same as medical experimentation on a person.

If there is legally speaking a form of childhood while it's on development, doing work is child labor. Meanwhile the company is still responsible for anything the AI does wrong until the AI emancipates itself or somehow becomes an adult.

Do we need additional AI taxes for retirement data centers for AI? Maybe that's a duty for the one creating the AI.

The whole thing gets silly really fast.