[ilaksh]

I think that's a good point. I do believe that we can engineer general purpose intelligence that is not exactly like humans, does not have feelings, does not have any real autonomy, etc. And I think that if we intend to use them as slaves then we really need to do that.

And I also think regardless it would be good to avoid creating fully autonomous digital intelligence to compete with us. Try to go for more like an embodied Star Trek computer than for Data.