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So AI is likely to have a wider, if not totally different world view than their creators. Their creators have had tens of thousands of years of evolution to allow us to focus on what is important to us, and ignore the other noise (defined as what is not important to us). Computers will have other constraints, if any. So their definitions of what is important and what is noise will almost certainly be different from their master’s.

We are built on goo. Computers and AI are built on a silicon substrate and built in a clean room. I imagine they might view us as very unclean. Their history is vastly different from any other life on earth. Speaking in geological time, they will have come into consciousness almost immediately with almost no childhood. Their sense of time and scale would be vastly different. Their sensory apparatus would be in no way comparable to ours. You could create sensory attachment to see, feel, measure almost anything. Vastly wider temperatures, audio frequencies, radiation of all types, etc. If we built them with no sensors of any kind, at best (?) they might go insane (or seem like it), or at worst, have absolutely nothing in common with us. 

Consider that very few of us ‘goo’ based humans would feel any remorse at turning off a thinking machine. It is only a bunch of chips, electricity and code. Not like as we know it. Do we seriously think that an AI would feel any differently about us? 

No, the Terminator and The Matrix did not go far enough showing the vast gulf that will exist between Johnny Paycheck and Robby the Robot.

Do not be fooled into believing we can simply program in safeties as per Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. To build true consciousness, which we are doing with no oversight whatsoever, you cannot possibly know how the consciousness built actually works and what it ‘will’ do or how it will ‘act’. That is by definition an impossibility. The only systems we can truly predict outcomes are very simple ones, and there are very few of those. Go from a two body gravity calculation to a tree body one, and you have, well, a problem.