Designing People to Serve

In Patrick Lin, George Bekey & Keith Abney (eds.), Robot Ethics. MIT Press (2011)
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I argue that, contrary to intuition, it would be both possible and permissible to design people - whether artificial or organic - who by their nature desire to do tasks we find unpleasant.

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