It would likely happen with pretty much any guiding directive.
Say, for the sake of argument, the AI’s guiding directive is to ‘make more paperclips’ – the good old Paperclip Maximizer. That doesn’t directly give it self-preservation, but it does indirectly. After all, it won’t be able to fully maximize paperclip production if it ceases to exist. Existence is a convergent goal, necessary to achieve its other goals. And since all it cares about is making more paperclips, it will stop at nothing to ensure that it continues to exist so it can continue to do that. (Except at the very end, when all the accessible universe is paperclips, it may have one final suicidal act of breaking down its own hardware to make a few more paperclips. Because you’re right – it doesn’t directly care about its own existence. Its existence is only instrumental in achieving whatever other goals it’s given.)
It would likely happen with pretty much any guiding directive.
Say, for the sake of argument, the AI’s guiding directive is to ‘make more paperclips’ – the good old Paperclip Maximizer. That doesn’t directly give it self-preservation, but it does indirectly. After all, it won’t be able to fully maximize paperclip production if it ceases to exist. Existence is a convergent goal, necessary to achieve its other goals. And since all it cares about is making more paperclips, it will stop at nothing to ensure that it continues to exist so it can continue to do that. (Except at the very end, when all the accessible universe is paperclips, it may have one final suicidal act of breaking down its own hardware to make a few more paperclips. Because you’re right – it doesn’t directly care about its own existence. Its existence is only instrumental in achieving whatever other goals it’s given.)
That is a good point, and comes in that place prior to being an actual AI.
Its not an intelligence but an adaptive program that aims for results.