Sorry for the deluge of posts!

In my AI paper, I made the claim that Mr. Warwick's inevitable matrix (which he strongly supported freely allowing to happen) was not all that inevitable. He says that we should become part of a matrix because 1. If we do not, the machines will most likely take over, as in the film and 2. A matrix run by machines would be more morally respectful to the dying humans in its care.

His first point is alright, machines may in fact make some take-over move at some point in time, but I don't think his second point has much strength. Firstly, a moral society outside our matrix wouldn't have any bearing on our lives in the matrix, we would still keep people alive just to try to keep them alive the same that we do in the world today.. its just that they wouldn't actually be receiving that treatment. But if any sensory apparatus of theirs was still working, they would not feel as if they were just coasting to a stop in a womb-like structure, they'd feel like they were being kept alive by a machine, because they are in the matrix.

I just think that a more morally responsible society of machines doesn't have any significance unless some people were still out there to experience it.