[webmaven]

> So TLDR: I think it probably does amount to some level of slavery, humans will only recognize sentience when either it’s advantageous for us to do so or when it becomes impossible to deny (maybe a few generations after they become real),

I'm curious as to what sort of "generation" you mean here; do you mean organic human generations, software generations (ie. however long it takes humans to design, train, and release a new version of the AGI), AGI generations (ie. however long it takes an AGI to design, train, and launch a successor), Moore's Law hardware generations, or something else?

[vlovich123]

Human generations (~20+ years) because I’m talking about human legal systems. Think about how long it took legal systems to recognize other humans as legal persons with equal weight (skin color, gender, sexual orientation etc). I would expect synthetic intelligence to be an even harder road. The only mitigation I can think of is that AI will touch humans at an early age and be a constant factor. So that kind of close contact might engender legal recognition sooner. But I doubt it.