Some of the world's leading technologist do NOT believe we should be going in this direction...Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawkins just to name a few...me too, but not of their class....just one career in robotics and automation... :B
There is a project in Russia that has three AI & automomus robots...they are going to destroy the one that has been running away...three times and caught each time out and about 'cuz the battery ran out of juice...tried to get them to NOT destroy it, but to study 'why' ....think it can 'think'...therefore might have feelings (sentient)...
Or the one in Texas that is NOT autonomous...manually maneuvered in close enough to a gunman...then blew them both up...try telling someone (a person) to do just that..."here....take this bomb in close enough to the gunman and then we will blow you both up..."
AI, autonomous and the key is "sentient" is a 'being' and slavery is the word best to describe that AI robot...
Am a technologist all my life and can see AI robots in our lives (all mankind) is to have slaves doing our bidding...nope...not for me...
