Thanks for writing this interesting series :)
I think this is an incredibly important topic to investigate. Our whole future will be formed by this shift. We are really forming our future at this very moment by how we use these machines.
I wrote a longer reply to your first post which I think is also relevant to this one : https://steemit.com/life/@thecryptofiend/will-ai-and-robotics-create-a-new-form-of-slavery#@mindwheeel/re-thecryptofiend-will-ai-and-robotics-create-a-new-form-of-slavery-20161007t145839758z
The kind of AI which develops likely depends on what attitude we have towards it and what ethical standards we set as a benchmark.
The quality of the conversations and the ideas people share concerning these questions are of great importance.
In a way this is a point in time when our human culture is a kind of blank sheet of paper. We can escape all the previous limitations and build our culture intelligently. Now we actually have a realistic chance of true utopia.
Maybe one of the most important questions to look at is : how could we establish the highest possible standards for how this new technology is applied?
RE: Will AI and Robotics Create a New Form of Slavery? (Part 2 - Humans as Slaves of the AI)