I do feel (and I think feelings are about all that we (I?) can have given our (my?) lack of understanding of what intelligence actually is) that there is a tend

I do feel (and I think feelings are about all that we (I?) can have given our (my?) lack of understanding of what intelligence actually is) that there is a tendency to de-anthropomorphize a potential synthetic intelligence. It would after all, in theory at least, be created by humans who may or may not try to impart some values into it. But it could be truly alien as well; it seems truly unknown. I think the people trying to create these AIs are doing it for much the same reasons that one might have children - to impart some new being into the world, but that means that their reasons for doing so are about as varied and inscrutable (to me at least; I’ve never desired children) for those who would create new human intelligences. Basically, I miss when discussing computers was a more deterministic, engineering-adjacent domain rather than a philosophical one.