Right, but the "proliferation instinct" is not a viewpoint but something built into the genes of biological entities. Such an instinct could develop for "artif

Right, but the "proliferation instinct" is not a viewpoint but something built into the genes of biological entities. Such an instinct could develop for "artificial animals" over time. At that point they really would be no different from biological things conceptually. I'm saying that AIs we envision building for the foreseeable future are built in laboratory not in the evolution of real world out there where they would need to compete with other species for survival. Things that only exist virtually don't need to compete for survival with real world entities.