Wait. AIs are neither of the things you say. they're not elf-children, but they're not stupid machines. They're smart machines, much like humans (but much faster to adapt).

It's very hard to believe that we will be able to understand the source code of a real AI any better than we understand our own or each others'. In that sense, yes - finding a way to include "kindness" and "empathy" as meta-values for the bootstrapping machine is exactly what some of us have in mind.