Archived Can human enslavement of animals and plants be justified without justifying AI enslavement of humans? (AskVoat)
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Archived Can human enslavement of animals and plants be justified without justifying AI enslavement of humans? (AskVoat)
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[–] TheJanitor ago
I think that it all boils down to necessity. Most of human history, we've enslaved animals because we've needed them to advance our society and build our civilization. Granted, nowadays the enslavement is more for pleasure, but we do still need to eat, so I'm not sure that we'll ever stop until we have viable alternatives. That being said, I'm not sure that an AI would ever have a need to enslave us, per se, unless we tried to destroy it or force it to do something it didn't want to do. When that happens, I would absolutely say that an AI would be justified in enslaving humans, if it is able to. So let's not piss them off or build them robot murder bodies, eh?