Who is eligible to press the button to create an artificial people?This is not only about whether artificial people are eligible for moral subject i-dentity,but also about whether humans endow artificial peoples with certain purposes or needs.In the debate on moral subject identity,Torrance and Bry-son advocate the Organic view of ethical status:robots are essentially artifacts and tools,and they cannot be moral subjects.Peterson put forward a clear objection to Torrance's argument:artificial peoples are fully qualified to be moral subjects,especially artificial people i.Humans design basic desires and survival purposes for artificial peoples with the identity of moral subjects.Walker sees this as the new type of slavery.But Peterson argues that slavery does not exist in this case.In order to answer the question of whether it is ethical to create artificial peoples,this article first analyzes the possibility that artifi-cial people have the identity of moral subjects,and then demonstrate that autonomy is the core requirement for artificial peoples to be enslaved or not.Fi-nally,this article reveals a future picture of human workers living in dignity:it should be ethically forbidden for anyone to design artificial people i for any purpose,as designing artificial peoples is incompatible with respecting their autonomy;for robots made of metal-rubber,the necessary condition for them to obtain the identity of moral subject is that their minds have been awakened;for robots,their dignity is destined to oscillate between being designed and seeking.
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