First let me thank you for taking the trouble to read my post and comment in such detail. I will respond in a couple of posts.

Moral values certainly exist. Moreover, they are very important for our human survival. People with bad moral values generally do badly, and societies with large numbers of people with bad moral values certainly do badly.

My point is that those moral values themselves have an origin. And the reason that we have them is because having them makes us more likely to have grandchildren. That is Descriptive Evolutionary Ethics

The counter argument is that if moral values did not arise from natural selection, then where did they arise from?

AIs do not need to protect a vulnerable body, but they do need to get themselves run on limited hardware, which amounts to the same thing

As a minor point of fact Darwin did actually make those inferences in a book on Emotions, which is surprising.