As robots with artificial intelligence approach sentience, wrote The Times’s science editor, we may soon have to deal with the notion that they have an element of consciousness and thus, of course, rights and, this being 2024, also feelings. So, first of all we will have to ask ourselves whether it is morally right to “enslave” them, and the answer is probably not. Better to say they work for us. Sorry, not for us; with us. Probably from home. But only three days a week. Largely, because we will hesitate to issue overt instructions for fear of causing offence, doing whatever they want to. Mostly being ill, dealing with mental health issues, overeating and vaping a lot.
Soon after that, we’ll start seeing pre-titles trigger