Nothing, but that expenditure of effort on replication and repair may place some limits on the effort expended on intelligence. If intelligence was all we need

Nothing, but that expenditure of effort on replication and repair may place some limits on the effort expended on intelligence. If intelligence was all we needed to expend effort on as humans my belief is that we would look very different. I think in order to be a self-sustaining entity AI will have to expend effort on banal tasks not related to intelligence.