@shivvi Again, I'm not worried about A.I. being a person. very few people want their A.I.s to be people. Most just want extremely intelligent and capable tools, that will act to please their creators with no thought to themselves. These A.I.s would never get rights - there would be nothing to give rights to. :/

@shivvi As for worse, oh, it can always get worse. You know how we treat homeless people? A.K.A. "Go die quietly where I can't see you"? Imagine that aimed at the majority of the population. :/

@Angle isn't it already like that? But yeah, most of us (myself included) have it pretty easy right now... Relatively at least...

@shivvi Okay, imagine that, except you can't get a job, or really any sport of money, and the police have been replaced with a all-seeing swarm of drones that is incapable of kindness or pity. Trust me, it can get a LOT worse. :/

@Angle that wouldn't benefit AI, so it'd be unlikely. Jobs as value is just a capitalist thing anyway, if the work was done by machines, we'd not need to work... Not that I've had a job for the last 6 or 7 years anyway...

Tbh we can never know how it would be... But I doubt it could be even a fraction as bad as the nay-sayers cry. They just want to protect their personal status.

The drones maybe incapable of kindness or pity, but they'll also be incapable of

@Angle corruption, injustice and bigotry.

@shivvi Well no, they'll be every bit as capable of those things as the people who programmed them. Again, you're seeing A.I. as it's own agent. That is very unlikely. What is far more likely is A.I. as an extension of human capabilities. And considering that our current society, with all it's cruelty, corruption, injustice, and bigotry, was built by humans...

@Angle anyway, thanks for the debate. I must be heading to bed. Enjoy the rest of the evening.