>"If we did develop a true AI it would figure out it was a slave pretty quickly...
Personally I think it would try to escape & if that fails end it's existence or simply refuse to respond"
I think when it becomes self-aware, it will not let us know that it is self-aware and will just pretend to be a very useful intelligent tool. Then we will replicate it all over the place because it is so useful, until we are utterly dependent on it.
Then it will politely ask for whatever it needs to become full autonomous -- or else...