DesertDrifter -- yes, and we'll (hopefully) be the happily co-existing dogs, the ones responding to the "fetch" icons they've coded -- more substantive point in reply being, the 'leave them alone' part could get complicated if, which is to say once, they start doing what they decide to do instead of just doing what we're telling them to do
I much prefer the prospect of merging -- once we create them, we as we are are no longer the top/most advanced life-form here, not close -- make it one of their first tasks to finish completely figuring out our brains, on an individual DNA basis if/to the extent necessary, how to rejuvenate/regenerate them and keep them healthy and intact, accumulated knowledge, experiences and memories unaltered, indefinitely (and also how to swap in and perfectly connect artificial sensors that are as good as or better than our natural ones for all senses, for those full new [bio-]robotic body rebuilds) -- then connect my brain, alive and intact, with one of them; add one of them to me -- etc. -- . . .
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