 There are some things we can safely say about tomorrow. Certainly, barring some cataclysmic events (nuclear or biological warfare, global economic depression, a meteorite smashing into Earth, etc.), we now know that AI will succeed in producing artificial animals. Since even some natural animals (mules, e.g.) can be easily trained to work for humans, it stands to reason that artificial animals, designed from scratch with our purposes in mind, will be deployed to work for us. In fact, many jobs currently done by humans will certainly be done by appropriately programmed artificial animals. To pick an arbitrary example, it is difficult to believe that commercial drivers won’t be artificial in the future. (Indeed, Daimler is already running commercials in which they tout the ability of their automobiles to drive “autonomously,” allowing human occupants of these vehicles to ignore the road and read.) Other examples would include: cleaners, mail carriers, clerical workers, military scouts, surgeons, and pilots. (As to cleaners, probably a significant number of readers, at this very moment, have robots from iRobot cleaning the carpets in their homes.) It is hard to see how such jobs are inseparably bound up with the attributes often taken to be at the core of personhood – attributes that would be the most difficult for AI to  replicate.[46] 