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lol there are a lot of potential scifi analogues.
Like the MeSeeks from Rick and Morty.
But I'd reiterate my point. The ethical issues mostly arise when you assume that their mental conditioning is NOT 100% effective and that it might occur to them to do something different.
If you've got a creature in front of you that WANTS to do taxes, enjoys doing taxes, wants to want to do taxes, and doesn't ever think there's anything wrong with that... and isn't otherwise causing itself harm due to some secondary effect of the programming, I don't think you're obligated to do anything other than facilitate their ability to keep doing taxes as long as that is relevant.
But I do think that's where we're starting to lose the analogy to AI, since we kind of know less about their individual internals than we do about human's.
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