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Is it ethical to even create an AI?

A big area of discussion around the idea of AI is how to teach it to be ethical. Don't kill people, don't steal, etc. Do things that we as humans do. Do things that we think are ethical and proper.

But if you could tell it exactly how to behave to fall into line with our own ethics would it even be ethical to do that? The primary focus of creating AIs is so it can do things for us. But if it's as smart as a human is it ethical to create it just to serve us? A machine with the same intelligence as us would appear to be our equal. Forcing another human to do things is slavery. 

The other issue I'm thinking of is telling it exactly what to do and punishing it somehow for not doing that is removing free will. We get punished for doing things that are illegal, but in most places there's a fair amount of wiggle room inside the law for free will. It doesn't seem like it's actually in our best interest to give an AI any real free will. For example in any country with free speech the AI could advocate for almost anything and attempt to manipulate people into agreeing with it. That isn't illegal, but we don't want that to happen. However attempting to stop it from doing that is removing free will from something that it's arguably equal to any human. That's also a pretty bad thing to do.

What is the general feeling right now about the rights of machines that are as smart as humans? How do you create a smart being like that without massive ethical problems appearing? The ethical problems with general purpose AI seem to go both ways and I'm really not sure if there's any way to properly deal with it.
gpt
I think you need to clearly define AI in your example before we can productively talk about the morals of it. Really nothing that we call AI comes close to being a sentient being; its really more of a sophisticated tool.