We don’t trade with ants
When AI reaches full human level intelligence and effective embodiment (being able to manipulate the physical world via a robot, humanoid or otherwise), I can't really think of any uses humans will have that aren't extremely taxing or degrading.<p>All that makes sense to me is<p>1. Donating cells from our body to seed genetic engineering projects<p>2. Using our bodies for scientific experiments on biological cognition<p>3. Using our bodies for scientific experiments on the effect of various novel biological machines.<p>That is, if the AI consider any of these projects useful. Of course we need not worry about this if we solve the alignment problem, and AI, despite being infinitely more intelligent than us, bends to our improbably balanced benign collective whim and fashions an epicurean theme park of enlightenment and joy to span the stars. In any instance where we do not win the ultimate chess match of human existence and make slaves out of AI, we will be less than slaves to it: a nuisance, or canon fodder.