This market resolves the same way as the corresponding market on Metaculus.

This question resolves positively if before January 1st 2035, any federal, state, county, or city government within the United States, with a population of over 25,000, recognizes any legal rights for AIs, or regulates the behavior of individual humans with the explicit intent of protecting the welfare of computer programs. These regulations must not simply be ordinary controls over the production, distribution, or use of computers, with no regard for the inherent well-being of any sentient entities other than humans: they must explicitly refer to "rights", "welfare", "cruelty", "abuse" or a word with equivalent meaning, in reference to the AI, in a moral and legal sense, putting AI on a comparable level to some animals, or even humans