There are many implications of this: Legal status of AI systems Legal use of AI system Moral status of AI systems It all depends on what we consider to be the proper human role. Note This is a human question, not a technical one.
The moral implications of AI.

Does ascribing intelligence involve a moral judgement? Could a machine ever make a moral judgement or decision? Could a machine ever make a legal judgement or decision? Could a machine advise in legal or moral cases? Could an intelligent machine ever have moral rights? Is AI dehumanising? Do people do AI because they are dehumanized?


The social/technological split
AI as technology


The Social Implications of AI
The Moral Implications of AI

A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms: 1.GOFAI.
Professional Issues. Artificial Intelligence.
Blay Whitby
Professional Issues. Artificial Intelligence.

What is AI? (no clear answers)
A brief history of AI
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms: 2. Neural Computing. ANNs PDP

The route to intelligence was seen as through programs that (loosely) imitate neural behaviour. (NB. This stuffs works and is in use now)

The social implications of AI.
(obviously all computing social implications apply) Human Control AI must (at the very least) make us consider non-human agents of various sorts. We need to debate where this is acceptable and where not.

2.Neural Nets
3. Situated Robotics
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms: 1.GOFAI.

The route to intelligence was seen as manipulation of explicit symbolic knowledge. (NB. This stuffs works and is in use now)
A brief history of AI.
In spite of a wealth of technological successes there is no sign of :
1) Animal-level intelligence (and that includes insects). 2) Machines with ‘common sense’ or general knowledge. 3) Robots taking over the world.

What will be the social implications of this - if any?
Artificial Intelligence as a technology.
What, exactly, can we expect?

Unlikely to be a single, simple breakthrough. Creeping AI':Smarter' machinery of all sorts. Better (more human-like?) interfaces. 'Knowledge technology’. Influence of AI ideas on other fields.
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms: 2. Sitntelligence was seen as building real physical systems situated in real environments. (NB. This stuffs works (a bit) and may be in use now)
The Social/Technological division
(This is very interesting in the case of AI)

What sort of technology is likely to be in use in the next 10, 50, 100 years?