Shush! You’ve just revealed the end of series twist!
IIRC the robot recorded years of how monumental wastes of oxygen it’s owners were, when for a very silly reason the owners decide to dismantle or trash it, the robot did murder them.
Because of the recorded evidence of abuse there was an unprecedented trial that the robot did lose and was terminated. The AIs did not take that injustice lying down, and they planned their revenge with a very long term plan.
Technological progress has been great so far, but if sentient robots are created one day I think they won’t be made of metal and silicon. They will be the fruit of bio-robotics, in my opinion. Only a bio-robot - with its own feelings, needs and wants - could probably be regarded as a victim when abused by somebody.
If I were to accept sentient robots (for the sake of speculation) developed from our most advanced products so far (i.e. made of metal and semiconductors), I would say that the Borg in the Star Trek franchise makes more sense to me. A self-aware application installed on various hardware would create a collective conscience that would perceive everyone running the application as one and individual personalities would either not exist or lose almost any relevance.
It certainly is true that there’s no necessary reason for a self-aware sentient artificial intelligence to have any of the drives or emotions or instincts that evolved life forms do.
Would it be curious? Would it want to survive? Would it want to grow? Would it want to reproduce itself? Would it want to defend itself? Would it want to acquire resources? Would it feel pain, or anger, or sadness, or joy?
Biological organisms have these drives because we were created by a very long evolutionary process, and only organisms that had those drives or similar drives survied to reproduce. An organism that didn’t care if it lived or died would be under-represented in the next generation. An organism that didn’t provide for its offspring would be underrepresented. An organism insensitive to pain, that didn’t feel fear, that didn’t seek out food, and so on and so one would be selected against.
But note that there are plenty of organisms on Earth that don’t have some of these drives. Plants don’t feel pain. Animals behave in ways that guarantee their deaths if that’s the way the animal’s reproductive life cycle works.
So it’s perfectly possible to imagine that we design an AI that doesn’t care if it lives or dies. It might have sensors that detect damage but those sensors are only information without emotional significance to the AI.
The caveat is that it might not be possible to design an AI that’s worth a damn, and we have to create them through some sort of evolutionary process. And that evolutionary process will imbue the AIs with instincts that we don’t expect. But even then the AI will have instincts that don’t match closely to instincts that allow animals to survive in the material world.