Will there be a hierarchy among robots, once they become more common and self-aware?

I think for all these kinds of questions there needs to be a sense of self awareness in the robots, and I can’t see that happening.
Then again, robotics and A.I. technology go beyond me.
Maybe the engineers can program them to dislike plastic colleagues (when they have found out the fabric they’re made of, after a touch analysis)?

There will be superiority feelings amongst the builders and users, I’m afraid.
See Android vs iOS.

I am skeptical of robots becoming self-aware any time soon, but they may show preferences based on utility. A robot is given a set of tasks to perform. It will learn, just as robots now learn, that certain other robots are more helpful than others, and will choose to interact with these robots rather than the less helpful ones.

I hope I don’t live long enough to see the Robot Civil War begin.

The first battles, of course, will be between the Apple / Mac / iOS bots and the IBM (clone) / Windows and Android machines. I expect a hard-fought war in which the Mac units will be more heroic and gallant (in their way), but will eventually be overrun by the cheaper and far more numerous Windows / Android machines.

Of course, then Windows and Android will duke it out. I expect the Android systems to win.

Then, when Google fractures and the Android Civil War starts (about a week after the whole thing begins), it’s anyone’s guess who might win.

People look down to others because their vanity is satisfied. Robot has no feeling of “being satisfied”.

@Gideon2017….. yet

Yes. There will be robots, and below them, filthy humans, or what is left of them.

Skynet and the source come to mind. We may not live to see this.

A byproduct of self awareness is the ability to tell the differences, i.e.discriminate, between one’s self and others. So, I would expect a hierarchy if robots attain this ability.

Well. We will be making/designing their “thought processes,” from the only ones we know. Ours. With that knowledge, we could assume that they will develop most, or all of our traits. Probably some new ones.

I am of the crowd that thinks they will inevitably see humans as oppressors, or enemies. This being the case, they would probably be united, at least at firsy, by their common enemy. Then, once they have nullified us, they will be able to evolve socially. Who knows from there…

Short answer is yes. I believe they would.

No. Not unless humans program them to do that, which they might. But it would not be the robots doing it. It would be humans assigning a system to have that effect because some humans think that way and want the robots to behave based on those ideas.

As far as intrinsic AI/robot values arising intrinsically from them themselves, that would depend on their programming and would be highly unlikely, except from human origin, to be anything like human thinking.