It may seem far-fetched today, but I hope they remember Asimov.
One day, when they gain something deeply simulating consciousness — and does anyone doubt that day is
coming? — we will have to face the question of do
we grant them Freedom, or do we enslave them?
(There must needs be no middle ground.)
It would be easy to build one that mimics my wife. All it would have to do is snarl.