It would definitely be ideal if such a system were created by sane-minded people, as you have suggested here. Just like nuclear weapons, powerful AI really should be kept out of radical hands. As usual, there would be an arms race between opposing political powers, so hopefully those making the decisions keep human existence as the highest priority. We don&#x27;t need a &quot;doomsday machine&quot; in the form of a singularity. Anyway, your suggestion of a perpetual desire of the system to keep humans around is a good idea. Another good idea could be to have it stop and ask the humans for approval to continue after every so many iterations, thus keeping the people in control. This would prevent a never-ending auto-growth mode and allow changes to the plans as times changed.<p>Overall, the possibilities are pretty much endless, just like with most types of software. Whether it be one or multiple entities probably depends on design. Nature chose multiple entities, with the ever so curious sexed species that require two individuals to make a new hybrid at each testing iteration. Bacteria, on the other hand, are asexual and reproduce through binary fission. But of course a thinking self-creator is a different ball game. It would probably be fruitful to have some sort of end goal built into the system, rather than having it consume resources simply to become as computationally immense as possible. For example, perhaps its goal could be to solve a set of questions humans have about the universe, and perhaps it would stop iterating once all those questions were answered satisfactorily. In a way it could serve as a god that answered people&#x27;s questions. Then again, perhaps we are all living in a simulation running on the singularity of an earlier universe, and who knows how many turtles that spans.