...what are they? or rather, what are the commonly accepted guidelines for when it's appropriate to create them and how they should be treated?
For example, when my character Alex creates Roll, it's because he needed a ship's engineer, but he doesn't just assume she'll do it. He
offers her the job but makes it clear that if she doesn't want it, she's free to go, and that he'll help her get set up somewhere else if she wants
to. Is this, or something similar, common practice with people who regularly create sentient robots (and A.I.s), or is something completely different the norm?
For example, when my character Alex creates Roll, it's because he needed a ship's engineer, but he doesn't just assume she'll do it. He
offers her the job but makes it clear that if she doesn't want it, she's free to go, and that he'll help her get set up somewhere else if she wants
to. Is this, or something similar, common practice with people who regularly create sentient robots (and A.I.s), or is something completely different the norm?