&gt; The second point is that they would have no reason to keep us around. They would do whatever we programmed them to do, to the point of absurdity.<p>This is where this line of reasoning completely falls apart for me. Any complex system is going to do unexpected things that weren&#x27;t deliberately designed for. My laptop computed doesn&#x27;t do &quot;whatever it was programmed to, to the point of absurdity.&quot; Why would you expect a program complex enough to simulate the human mind to act in such a predictable way, when none of the much simpler programs we already have act that way?