Except, how could such a set of preferences have evolved? How would that behavior ever be adaptive?
Most every human preference is adaptive in some sort of ancestral context. We can, at least, assume that alien preferences are adaptive as well (given that the aliens appear via evolutionary processes, rather than some other way)
Moral considerations need not be directly adaptive; you can probably get there from routes as simple as empathy + deductive reasoning. If humanity hasn't come to that collective conclusion yet, despite having the hardware, I suspect it's because such an omnicidal conclusion hasn't been in any major group's interests yet.
Top ten tips for an AI bent on destroying humanity: