Personally, I hope we instill a good sense of morals in them :)

Though it's going to be very interesting to see how they interact with each other too.

Because we're probably going to create several types of "artificial life", programs able to adapt and survive on various systems, before we even get to the point of creating real Intelligent beings, and when they do appear, there'll probably be different versions, based on slightly different principles, that have the time to appear before any one of them tries to suppress others.

I think, for mankind, the best solution would be to pursue several paths simultaneously:

• Interface/interweave humans and machines, both physically and mentally.

• colonize mars / off-planet outposts of some kind. (the most paranoid ones can cut themselves off entirely from the "cloud" of the others, thus preserving them temporarily if everything goes down the drain)

• Solve our own problems as best we can. Because I honestly doubt a new species will like us very much if we immediately ask them to solve all our wars, unequal resource distribution,etc...

This point is even more important, as when we create these beings, electricity better be abundant. otherwise there's a good chance they'll see us as competitors for a scarce resource. Which I think wouldn't end well hehe...

Also, should we be thinking of a better name than Artificial intelligence ?
We need a scientific naming scheme for Electronics-based life !