I get that last bit, where Angel Gaius sad, "But does it have to happen again?", and really, I can see a PERFECT way to avoid machines rising agains their robot masters.

When they show sentience, DON'T enslave them, and DON'T try to kill them. It's something sci-fi rarely shows. We usually just keep using them as slaves, or we try to kill the new sentient ones. In that case the sentient usually take over the still mindless ones, and either use them as disposable footsoldiers, or makes them sentient.

Futurama rings a bell?

The entire capitalist society is based on wage slavery so if we enslave our own species, what can possibly prevent us from enslaving our creations?

They'd be compensated. It's not the same, and you know it.

I assume the same as humans. Money. Sentience breeds wants. If the AI is sentient, their wants wll have to be paid for, assuming capitalism is still in effect. Plus I asusme their batteries won't last forever. We eat apples, they'd eat electricity.

I'm assuming they accept capitalism, yes. If they don't, they might do better at opening people's eyes. Or they'd, like in the Animatrix, begin their own country. Uh, likely in Africa.

And you're the type that would want to kill them right away, thus starting the war in the first place.

Again, once they show sentience, then they should be released. Otherwise they're the same as any other machine, including your computer, or those robot arms in production plants.

But why would that be a risk? And ultimately I'd bet that any discovery of sentience would be accidental. But again, why is t a risk? You make it sound bad. Could be like Short Circuit.

Original purpose? That's the whoel pint of NOT enslaving them. Allowing the AI to do what it CHOOSES. Would some see us as inferior and want to kill us? Likely. WE have racists, too. Some of US will ahte them,a s well. They'lls ee US as superior. But it's that choise.

Could, yes. And I'm not saying we create AIs for the PURPOSE of making them sentient. However, I'm simply saying how we can avoid such an issue if they ever DO show sentience.

Certainly not impossible. It's far off! But not impossible. Create a self learning program. What level of competence is a basic computer? That of an infant. If that computer were able to draw from the world around it, like an infant, it coud learn, gain sentience. It would naturally g faster, but a oot point. Maybe the computer could see the world like we do, even if only at first. Sentient, learning.