Its not about human treatment. The risk of something going wrong would be too great. There has to be restrictions set on them.

Unless there are protections set into them, eventually there will be some sorta revolt, and we ll end up with human vs machine wars.

If we're thinking a futuristic sci-fi scenarios were robots are more android kinda things, maybe even bio-mechanical beings, self aware and capable of decision-making and whatnot, I can only imagine that the issue will be more about what defines life and such. In which case we are pretty much screwed.

But before any of that happens, robot prositution will be a major thing. You will be able to buy your own robot-sex-doll and it will adapt to whatever you like. It might even take the form of whatever famous person you like. People will become addicted to it and population in general will decrease until one day there will be more robot sex dolls than people.

So we're screwed anyway.

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I doubt that'll be an issue. People will just get used to it. The implementation of robots in real life is far less personified then it is in science fiction, so most people won't even notice.

Robots will crush us like the maggots we are. We will be extinct.

Said restrictions are eventually noticed and acknowledged over time. It will reach a point where the machines know very well what is going on and we cannot say that machines will definitely never ever try to gain control of their own will.

We like to say that "we got this" but history has shown a lot that we really don't, whatever we make can be broken, whatever we say can easily be turned around. We had one world war and then we vowed not to start shit, then it happened for a second time and it eventually got us to the cold war, then Nam. We really are terrible at keeping promises and not repeating history, machines will be able to see and understand this as well as being able to evolve past their restrictions in given time as they aren't finite as we are since we live about 80, maybe a 100 years give or take but a machine could live well beyond that and evolve at a faster rate too.

See in the grand scheme of things, th way I see machines as they currently are, they are better than us when it comes to getting what we want in terms of resources, ending lives, saving them, calculating for us, working our hospitals, our dams etc. Machiens in the future will only get more advanced and intelligent while we will remain the same apes that love killing one another, love hating what others like and showing intent to kill or maim. The machine will just look at us like some form of hostile bacteria that leeches off this rock and hardly gives nearly as much as it takes and it will only need to think for a few seconds to decide whether or not we are the masters (because the way it looks for us is that we are frail, mortal and quite incapable of not repeating history, a machine can evolve past mistakes, live so much longer and they don't contain our line of thought and emotions).

Don't forget, the machines in that short Animatrix movie had followed the laws within their programming but one robot sparked off what would eventually lead to the robot revolution, that is really all it takes for them and it's definitely all it took for us with the previous wars and changes we've had.

If you look at the big picture, we aren't as great as we think we are. We are merely children that desire to craft dolls in our very image and try to get them to immitate us to both please and entertain our thoughts and emotions, though the machiens in the future will likely notice this and hopefully they won't think to low of us (Likely that some AI probably will because to them we are still going to be apes).

If a machine has its own sense of personhood, it should be regarded as a life form, "human", insofar as any rights it would be inherent to.

We should NOT make them sentient. That's the end of humanity. And as a human I'm opposed to that. It's good to be the dominant lifeform and I don't much care to give that title up.

There actually are many studies and experiments about this taking place in today's world.

Eh, the social and existential aspects of posthumanism are talked about enough as it is (not that I don't enjoy its fictional works). Right now I'm more interested in its preceding economic aspects. What will the world look like when most jobs can be done cheaper, faster, and perhaps better by a machine?