Has to be materialist for AI rights...

[redharo]

Enslaving a Synth has the usual advantages - slavery bonus on tile yields.
Wich is already quite a lot, especially if you consider that you will most likely drop the original robots on mining fields.

Yep! Enslaving a synth, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Mauer]

I didn't read the entire thread, but I think at least Fanatic Xenophiles and maybe Fanatic Egalitarians should have AI rights as an option, while it is forced upon both Materialists.

 

[Teutonizer]

I didn't read the entire thread, but I think at least Fanatic Xenophiles and maybe Fanatic Egalitarians should have AI rights as an option, while it is forced upon both Materialists.

At least if they have Mechanist civic

 

[Avian Overlord]

Yep! Enslaving a synth, what could possibly go wrong?

Given that getting the AI Rebellion as your crisis is among the best things that can happen to a galaxy, very little.

 

[BurlapNapkin]

Are robots actually enslaved (as far as generating additional resources)? The tooltip only ever gives me their 'trait' bonus (robot/synth/droid), if it is slavery, it's some very special kind that doesn't seem to influence their energy or science output (positively or negatively).

If there is some sort of advantage to keeping synths in digital chains, I seem to have entirely missed it.

 

[The Founder]

I didn't read the entire thread, but I think at least Fanatic Xenophiles and maybe Fanatic Egalitarians should have AI rights as an option, while it is forced upon both Materialists.

At least if they have Mechanist civic

Again, no point. That the faction get pissed is simply a bug:
Egalitarians do NOT care if Robots have Citizenship and do NOT care if Robots are enslaved. That they consider it for migration at all is a bug.
Xenophile and Xenophobe always explicitly excluded Robot pops. And it is till does.
It is just a classical problem with the Xeno-check:
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Jargon#Game_Terms

Are robots actually enslaved (as far as generating additional resources)? The tooltip only ever gives me their 'trait' bonus (robot/synth/droid), if it is slavery, it's some very special kind that doesn't seem to influence their energy or science output (positively or negatively).

You can not enslave a T1 or T2 Robot. They are not ... sentient enough ... to be enalved I guess? Or rather they are always working like Enslaved/Nerve Stapelled Very Strong Pops.

But you can enslave a Synth, same way you would any organic.