Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics, eds. Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George Bekey. MIT Press.
Suppose it is the future, and you are seated before the Person-o-Matic: a machine that will design and produce genuine persons—beings of intelligence and ethical significance like our own—to your specifications. The person can be organic or robotic, and can have any of a range of hardwired desires. I argue that it would be permissible to create a quite wide range of persons in this way. In particular, it would be permissible to create (genuine, ethically significant) persons with hardwired desires to serve humans generally, or even to serve some one specific person.