robkelk Wrote:The first group one would treat the same way one treats a favoured pet. The second group one would treat the same way one treats any other adult. The third group... well, Gina can tell you herself how she'd prefer to be treated.
- non-sophont-type intelligences (e.g. The Boys at Hephaestus)
- already-adult-human intelligences
- Gina
As for an unintentional Awakening... must think on that, too.
Well, I was thinking about the average piece of Fen hardware. There're plenty of pieces of hardware out there which are sapient AI's, but are still manufactured and sold as equipment. Either that, or I'm misreading a few articles.
But for arguments sake. say Jet and Ford decide to find something to do with the last few dregs of their Highway Star parts. They decide to build a BGC motoroid/slave, capable of some basic independent operations like 'Follow me', 'Stay here', 'Shoot those guys'.... 'Catch me'... that sort of thing. Expert-system level working. It's verifiably nothing more than an algorithm running on a chip. So there's nothing wrong with producing them, or with buying a selling them, or with ordering it to stay behind and cover a retreat, getting it destroyed in the process. After all, it's just equipment.
Now, if the few drabs of wave needed to make it go right happen to spark just right, and it wakes up and gains sapience, what then? You have a person with needs and requirements that have to be met. If every single motorslave in a theoretical production line wakes up when first being powered on, what then? They're living 'people' according to the law, is it right to sell them to owners as property? Is it compel them to order them to their certain death to save yourself?
Maybe I''m overthinking this, or just being a little bit silly.
The other question that bothers me. How do you give that motoroid a good quality of life, especially if you haven't even intended for it be sapient? Jet might not have given it the ability to speak, or even some way to make its needs known because Jet and Ford never expected it to have personal needs.
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