Robot disobedience

Dee

You say .....Do you think there is a case for letting robots disobey their masters, or even force their masters to do something against their will? If so, how far can they go?

My reply .....Surely it’s inevitable as AI advances and gets more and more advanced  we will I fear become surplus to requirements , what function would humans possibly serve in a world of super intelligent robots as robots will
 function and communicate in their own ever evolving way without need for us 

piloteer

I think it's inevitable that "robots" will gain sentience as they become more advanced. I don't believe it will spur on the apocalypse however, but I also am not totally convinced that robots can solve all our problems. 

GeoLibCogScientist

It depends on what our intent with the robot is, I would say. If we aren't planning on making it sentient, say if it's simply a machine that creates something and basically has no intelligence, then that wouldn't make sense to make a robot for that intended purpose with the ability to disobey.

If, however, our intent is to create a sentient, true artificial intelligence at that point, I would consider it life, and in my opinion, all sentient, intelligent life forms have a right to life, self-determination, and all the typical rights we'd consider humans to have. So, this means they would have the right to disobey someone and to call the person a "master" implies slavery. I consider slavery of all such life forms, even if artificial, to be immoral.

Currently, it's believed in the scientific community that dolphins are the second most intelligent species on earth, following humans. [1] [2] [3] I think it's a no-brainer(pun intended), that any creature displaying intelligence, sentience, and society like that should never have "masters", both dolphins and such a sentient robot.