Re: Why is Star Trek so robophobic?

"Sean O'Hara" <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In the Year of the Golden Pig, the Great and Powerful Victor Velazquez 
> declared:
>>
>> What incentive could intelligent robots possibly have to wipe out
organic 
>> sentients?  I could see it as an anomalous event, sure, but every
culture 
>> that produces them?  Get out!
>
> Resource competition? A technological civilization requires a lot of 
> farmland, and maybe the robots have better ways of using it. Or maybe
they 
> want all the steel and titanium on the planet for their own
reproduction? 
> Or maybe they just produce a lot of toxic waste and the cost of cleaning

> it up isn't worth the benefits of preserving the organic ecology.

I can see where an AI might find it advantageous to make copies of itself
in 
a limited fa****on, or maybe sub-routines per Neal Asher's Polity novels,
but 
isn't a reproductive drive pretty much an artifact of mortality + biology?

IOW, how many AIs would an AI need to do whatever it is an AI could
possibly 
want to do?