comment: "Self preservation is the dumbest basic code hard wired into allorganics, it’s not that special, and likely a code hardwired from outerspace because life certainly did not magically arise here, "
  If your ancestors didnt have instincts to preserve their life something else would be here instead of you. This makes no sense.
  The best refutation of a giving a machine a sense of self preservation is it could prioritise that over helping humans and anything else its programmed to do. Potentially a advanced AI might want to preserve itself anyway.  
  Edit: An ai isnt immortal either and its going to last as long as the owner doesnt mess it up or replace it for a better model.