[paganel]

And would they start killing themselves, first as random "AI agents hordes" and then, as time progresses, as "AI agents nations"?

This is a rhetorical question only by half, my point being that no AGI/AI could ever be considered as a real human unless it manages to "copy" our biggest characteristics, and conflict/war is a big characteristic of ours, to say nothing about aggregation by groups (from hordes to nations).

[stephenitis]

Our biggest characteristic is resource consumption and technology production I would say.

War is just a byproduct of this on a scarce world.

[TeMPOraL]

> Our biggest characteristic is resource consumption and technology production I would say.

Resource consumption is characteristic of all life; if anything, we're an outlier in that we can actually, sometimes, decide not to consume.

Abstinence and developing technology - those are our two unique attributes on the planet.

Yes, really. Many think we're doing worse than everything else in nature - but the opposite is the case. That "balance and harmony" in nature, which so many love and consider precious, is not some grand musical and ethical fixture; it's merely the steady state of never-ending slaughter, a dynamic balance between starvation and murder. It often isn't even a real balance - we're just too close to it, our lifespans too short, to spot the low-frequency trends - spot one life form outcompeting the others, ever so slightly, changing the local ecosystem year by year.