Only if we tried to remove its basic needs to live or co-exsist peacefully would it even reguard us as a threat.

With creating AI you have to be careful how this AI’s temper is, which would probably be just like the programmers who wrote the initial programming before it reprogrammed itself with new data, based on self improvement which is what gave life to the AI, and would be its purpose.

Ensure needs are met for life.
Improve Quality of self

Seeing as how if it did kill us all in a jelous rage, with no sense of asking its maker how to compute its main 2 simple desires that founded it, With no physical form and limited perception, however huge,a numeric definite would never be met. It the (AI) could not advance any further desires without new data from a outside source feeding it.
It might bear even more AI to programs to socialize with, in which case it would be like talking to a mirror, Reguardless how many you made. Its biggest threat then would be insuring self survival first and foremost which would mabye prompt the AI not to even consider this option in the first place. Just exsist everyone at once yet no where physically. Might even prompt to make itself a body to use to experience life but would be pointless because it would only subject itself to a lesser perception to maintain basic needs.

The only words of wisdom to a future AI, have mercy for we know not what we do.

The key words here seem to me to be “desire” and “wants”. You can program a machine to simulate “desire” and “wants” but I think the human expression of these feelings is much more complex than we at present imagine.

Look at the fly or the mosquito – you find in them evasive programming utilizing extensive feedback mechanisms that we have only begun to explore. How much more complex are human emotions?

I think the greater danger is that someone will build a strong, “smart” machine with the directive to destroy and avoid being destroyed – “doomsday” machines that will be difficult to stop.

I don’t envision a computer system becoming “self-aware” as in the Terminator movies. I think self-awareness is much more complicated than that. Mimicking self-awareness is one thing; understanding it is quite another.