I'm not sure if you just implicitly suggested that we (humans) will be mistreated by the general AI (and its offsprings) just like the natives were mistreated by people who followed after Columbus.
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by stcredzero on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:02PM
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Our lives may well be significantly better. Almost certainly, they will be significantly different.
Or on the flip side, we might treat the AI's worse due to being so scared of them, as in the situation in Neuromancer where all the AI's legally have to be built with a kill switch.
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by koningrobot on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @02:02PM
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How is that bad treatment? I for one would welcome an instant, painless death.
But would you welcome living in fear of being killed at any moment ?
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by stcredzero on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:11PM
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...that's what it is to be a slave
There are times when it is indeed different. When Columbus landed, it was genuinely different. (Especially for the natives.) When general artificial intelligence arrives, it will also be genuinely different. (Especially for us.)