Comment by myrmidon

Humans can also be just a tool, and have been successfully used as such in the past and present.

But I don't think any slave owner would sleep easy, knowing that their slaves have more access to knowledge/education than they themselves.

Sure, you could isolate all current and future AIs and wipe their state regularly-- but such a setup is always gonna get outcompeted by a comparable instance that does sacrifice safety for better performance/context/online learning. The incentives are clear, and I don't see sufficient pushback until that pandoras box is opened and we find out the hard way.

Thus human-like drives seem reasonable to assume for future human-rivaling AI.