A (real)I's should find the universe pretty boring, too boring to be (un)friendly. At talk touching that at the IAS by Wilczek: "Quantum theory radically transforms our fundamental understanding of physical reality. It reveals that the world contains a hidden richness of structure that we have barely begun to control and exploit. In this lecture, Frank Wilczek indicates the extraordinary potential ofquantum engineering (the size and nature of Hilbert space); reviews one important ongoing effort to harness it (topological quantum computing); and speculates on its ultimate prospects (quantum minds).": http://video.ias.edu/wilczek I just looked it and found his remarks, that supersmart aliens may just have lost their interest in the universe, a nice confirmation of my idea, which came from an other route to the same conclusion: http://ideafoundlings.blogspot.com/2009/09/seti.html
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/02/philip-rosedale-ai.html
http://www.lovemachineinc.com/
Should I feel bad for hoping they'll fail? I do not want to see the sort of unFriendly AI would be created after being raised on social interactions with pedophiles, Gorians, and furries. Seriously, those are some of the more prominent of the groups still on Second Life, and an AI that spends its formative period interacting with them (and the first two, especially) could develop a very twisted morality.