I still don’t see why a computer program necessarily self-replicates. You can program it to do so, like a computer virus, but a supremely intelligent one could

I still don’t see why a computer program necessarily self-replicates. You can program it to do so, like a computer virus, but a supremely intelligent one could override its programming. That is my source for concern, because any such program would have to find self-replication to be some universal “good”, and not just a property of certain dynamical systems like viruses, bacteria, and eukaryotes. And I can’t see any reason why it would, tbh.