What if some non-human species evolved to the point where its members could speak English, use the internet, and express a demand to be treated equally with humans.

Building openrouter.ai, prev: co-founder of OpenSea. alexatallah.com

They even coordinate with each other to protest in online forums until they get the right to vote.

Would we all just ignore them? No, some humans would probably side with them.

What if this species could read the news, learn from the result, and react?

And what if this new species had more powerful minds than all of us combined?

(Just curious what people think - I haven't gone deep into alignment pros/cons yet.)

What about the humans who side with them? Would you ignore them too?

No, they would probably make the news in a serious way at least once.