There are all sorts of ways to build intelligences. Humans are unique in that they are mammals (defined by having mothers). Mothers raise us with love, and teac

There are all sorts of ways to build intelligences. Humans are unique in that they are mammals (defined by having mothers). Mothers raise us with love, and teach us, for our helpless first years. We also have to act in communities. So there is a sense in that we are very lucky - in humans, our intelligence correlates with our altruism. In the grand space of possible minds, it is very unlikely that altruism and morality is correlated with intelligence. So whatever that machine race we birth is, it won't have any of the things we value if we're just building for "precise perception, reasoning, etc"