Is it ethical to send a robot to do a humans dirty work?
Robots aren’t yet human, so we don’t have to worry about human ethics–yet. To become like humans, says Foerst, the theologian, a robot would have to form meaningful relationships and understand the value of those relationships; essentially, it would have to have empathy. If we ever get to that point, and Foerst thinks we will, “we would have to treat them as an intelligent co-species.
