Original Reddit post

and they were incredibly smart, smarter than us? Would it still be legal to kill them? Would we treat them as “equal”, or just as our property / slaves? I think the answer is NO - we would never treat them as equal, simply because they are too different (they look different - bigger, hairy, with tails, they eat different food …). I think the same goes for AI - we will never be ready to look at a machine as equal or human-like, no matter how smart it is and what it tells us. We will always treat it as a pile of metal and transistors with a hard-coded behaviour, that was created by us (so we are superior). Do you think there could be a point, when the majority of people would be like “hey this machine is alive and it is wrong to turn it off, because it wants to live, it enjoys its life”. submitted by /u/ivanhoe90

Originally posted by u/ivanhoe90 on r/ArtificialInteligence