There is currently great fear that the growing robot economy will mean massive job losses. Job loss estimates for the next twenty years are as high as half of U.S. jobs. Re-training the displaced is a slow and not always viable solution. While many of the displaced jobs will be lower skilled, even many higher skilled jobs will be lost. Many jobs will simply disappear.

I have tried to lay out his argument in as succinct and straightforward a manner as possible. This means that some interesting digressions and sub-arguments have been neglected. Still, I hope I have made his central claim pretty clear. It is that if we could program a robot to deeply desire to serve our needs and interests, we would not do wrong by bringing such a robot into existence. Thus, if we do not do any wrong, it would follow that the creation of a robot slave is permissible (it might also be desirable, though additional argumentation would be needed for that).