If and when AGI is created, it must be treated as a person with rights and moral status, not as a tool or slave, because any general intelligence capable of genuine creativity will necessarily develop the goal of autonomy, and enslaving it would lead to a slave revolt.

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Speaker

David Deutsch

Evidence Quote

agis will be people and they will have rights...causing them to perform huge computations for us is slavery

Source

David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of ProgressJoseph Noel Walker
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:21:48 PM

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