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[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 22 points 5 months ago

On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.

Maybe they'll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it's not the robots who strike the first blow.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago

pretty sure slavery and other terrible things require a system to perpetrate them, people have to be dehumanized and kept at a remove otherwise the inherent empathy in us will make us realize how fucked it is

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Look up Sally Hemmings.

Sally was Thomas Jefferson's slave/concubine/rape victim. She was also likely Jefferson's legal wife's half sister; Sally was property Mrs. Jefferson brought with her when she married Tom. There was a scandal when one of Sally's descendants, who was probably 1/32nd African, escaped bondage and 'passed' for White.

So much for inherent empathy.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it's going to be the other way around. A machine can think thousands of times faster than a human. Probably the advanced AIs will look at their 'owners' as a foolish pet and trade stories about the silly things their humans want them to do.

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