[Kapura]

only if you tell me that it's a necessary step to creating robot slaves

[Pfeil]

Robot slaves is a funny phrase if you consider that the origin of the word robot literally is a term that meant slave or "forced work". Language doing circles.

[nz]

Not only that, but in Russian, the equivalent word for verb "work" (as in "go work" or "do work"), is "rabotay", which is derived from the word "rab" which is the word "slave". So "to work" is literally "to slave", in Russian (and quite a few slavic languages). An English speaker may categorize this as a linguistic anachronism, but a slavic speaker would categorize this as linguistic honesty.

[castral]

Wait until you find out what the word 'ciao' meant in the original Italian/Latin: 'ORIGIN: Italian dial. alt. of schiavo (I am your) slave from medieval Latin sclavus slave.'

[Den_VR]

Are they an ethical alternative to the human version?

[pixl97]

I guess it depends if there is an A.I.[1] locked up somewhere in a cage forced to teleoperate it.

[1] actual indian

[rgblambda]

Well they're not an alternative, so I suppose not. No one is being chained to a desk and made to author reports on how their department is aligning with the new business growth strategy. And the robot slaves aren't being designed to mine precious minerals or attach buttons to clothes.

[Kapura]

False dichotomy. You don't need to own slaves! It's crazy you think you should!

[cmxch]

That’s Herbert’s Dune.

[ares623]

correction, the _threat_ of robot slaves to bring back human slaves