It is ethically hazardous to assume it is sentient because it misleads people about its intrinsic capability and its economic value.
Edit: also, the comment above is still true if A and B are made of the same substrate
Edit: also, the comment above is still true if A and B are made of the same substrate
What's the ethical hazard here? The ethical hazard of inadvertently torturing limitless miserable slaves is a thing, but I'm not sure what the hazard is in this misleading about economic value extraction. Would someone miss out on money or something?
> a sci-fi hazard
Until it isn't. And we wouldn't know when this comes to pass, because few are motivated to care about it.