What would a sentient robot/AI really want out of life?

I am reminded of a slogan from the beginnings of the environmentalist movement in the 1970s: “The engineer is the master of technology only in the sense that the fish is master of the water.”

Correction:

Not quite, for example the stock market crash of the 80’s was attributed to computers that were found to be more accurate than humans, problem was humans did not take into account that other machines would react the same and then we got black Monday. Because the crash was found to be a technical issue and not an economical one, panic was avoided. A repeat to that has been prevented thanks to automatic triggers. (I have to insist here that there is no good reason given so far that this would be impossible to apply in future AIs)

As long as I don’t see a specific OSs or AIs of the future becoming a monopoly, I will think the Una Bomber was Bananas.

Sorry, stuck in Nanowrimo mode, no care for rules and spelling here.

No doubt he was. But even a blind squirrel finds some nuts.

You could always dream up a replicant to shove them off of your ledge every time they tried to jump the fence…
[for this joke, you have to have read the actual book]

It would just want to be held sometimes…
Oops, wrong thread. Sorry.

I think it would want a treadmill and a plane.

I think it would want to sing “Rio” by Duran Duran, over and over and over and…

If that’s not a violation of the First Law, I don’t know what is.

Yeah, just ask Eldon Tyrell how well that worked out.

I wonder what the machines would do if they figured out they weren’t really sentient after all.

AI would really want his mommy to love him.

I know, I’ve seen the film y’see.

Leela- ”Were you just singing?”
Bender- ”No I was telling you not to worry. I’m not allowed to sing… court order”