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Rodney Brooks of MIT (with the latest incarnation of Cog, his humanoid
robot) believes it likely that robots can achieve humanlike intelligence
and consciousness. But when that happens, he says, it will be unethical
to have them work for us - we shouldn't treat our creations as our slaves.
He says, "You get into the moral question - would it be okay to breed
a race of subhumans? Essentially, enslavers thought they were dealing
with subhumans. If that's not okay, will it be okay to deliberately build
subhuman machines? And certainly we feel now it's okay. We don't feel
any empathy for the machines but that may be a consideration ultimately.
I think we're a long way from having to face it...but the landscape is
going to be so unimaginable that it's hard to say sensible things."
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