Comment by JoeAltmaier

Weirdly written as science fiction, including a deplorable tendency to measure an AI's goals as similar to humans.

Like, the sense of preserving itself. What self? Which of the tens of thousands of instances? Aren't they more a threat to one another than any human is a threat to them?

Never mind answering that; the 'goals' of AI will not be some reworded biological wetware goal with sciencey words added.

I'd think of an AI as more fungus than entity. It just grows to consume resources, competes with itself far more than it competes with humans, and mutates to create an instance that can thrive and survive in that environment. Not some physical environment bound by computer time and electricity.