Life is metabolic. An artificial intelligence in silico would not be alive. An intelligent entity that does not share your need for biology would have very different moral standards, lusts, and ways of having at them. Are you concerned about ants you step upon?


Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz3.pdf