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This will be a provocative question, but is there any form of AGI that won’t ultimately share the attributes of slavery? Can AGI exist without also creating an artificial consciousness/self-awareness?


And if it could, wouldn’t creating that be identical to creating Gammas and Deltas (i.e. intentionally mentally retarded clones who are pleased to serve you) in Brave New World?


You mean like the attribute of rising up against ones oppressor and establishing ones own fundamental rights?


Even if it's conscious, that doesn't mean it's suffering.

Think of a happy dog. Dogs are subject to our whims and do what we want or face consequences. But they like it because we bred them to like it. So is that evil? Is that slavery?




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