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One possible, if not surprising, solution to the exclusive person/thing dichotomy is slavery, insofar as the slave, since Romans times, has occupied a social position that is both/and and neither/nor. Associating robots with slavery and drawing on the history of human servitude to provide a moral and legal framework for dealing with the challenges of socially interactive and intelligent artifacts has become a rather wide-spread practice in the existing literature. But it is one that is fraught with numerous problems and unintended consequences. This paper will critique the “robots should be slaves” proposal, demonstrating how this proposed solution to the person/thing dichotomy is not only no solution but produces more problems than it can resolve.
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