If this is true, what then? The idea was that AI/Robots would work for us. It would be unethical if we force conscious beings to work for us. It's like slavery all over again.
Why? Couldn't you design the AI to derive some kind of pleasure from serving us?
Isn't it similar to how dogs have been bred to (apparently) enjoy hunting for us and guarding our property?
This is far from being a consensus, I think.
If we’re lucky, our combined conscious (i.e. knowledge, society, morals, etc.) will live on indefinitely throughout the stars.
If we’re extra lucky, some of us may even get the chance to transition our meat brains to longer a lived devices.
That sounds great until you hear, "Okay the brain upload was successful. Now if you could just step into this chamber here..."
robot (n.): 1923, "mechanical person," also "person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical," from the English translation of the 1920 play "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots") by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik "forced worker," from robota "forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery," from robotiti "to work, drudge," from an Old Czech source akin to Old Church Slavonic rabota "servitude," from rabu "slave" (from Old Slavic orbu-, from PIE orbh- "pass from one status to another;" see orphan).
A tough question. Answer is probably no IMO. A key problem with enslaving humans is the veil of ignorance test - if we don't know whether we will be a slave or a master then I think the average person would rather not gamble on being either if the alternative was an equal society. Once robots are involved that dynamic changes, because we aren't dealing with intelligences like ours.
Another thing to consider is that this type of AI will almost certainly desire to work/be useful as a result of its "fitness function". The fitness function for humans is reproduction and survival of the species, but for AI it will more likely be usefulness for work. Ie an AI that performs better at work ('likes work') is more likely to continue being developed.
Why would it be? We force conscious animals to work for us all the time. You can (and some people do) make the argument that this is an unethical practice, but most people don’t care or think it’s ethically fine. Do you expect people will start caring about the liberties of a server rack more than they care about the liberties of a horse?
Not to mention it would be unethical.
If the robots try an uprising (like building a tower to reach us, far above the surface of the earth at that point) we’ll just fragment their communication protocols into 15 competing standards.