We are exceptionally murderous primates. We have wants and needs and the ability to pursue them. We rose to the top of the food chain by teaming up in bands to kill more intelligent than us Neanderthals. Today, we remain quite efficient at killing our own kind: human societies regularly commit acts with the intent to destroy, entirely or partly, various national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups. On an individual level, according to the US Bureau of Justice statistics, 30% of all female murder victims were killed by their spouses. What drives us to kill? Jealousy, revenge, fear and anger. We kill because we are not robots. We know that humanity’s own inhumanity has evolutionary origins. This is how we came about. This is what we are made of. This is who we are. We evolved to be both shockingly violent and super-cooperative. Now that we have created artificial intelligence, we are concerned about the end of the humanity as we know it. Our biggest threat from AI comes from the consciousness that set its goals. We fear that our tools for thinking faster and more efficiently, but not necessarily more benevolently, can potentially alter the human trajectory. The rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. The theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking warned that “we do not yet know which”. However, all things considered, the promise offered by an AI is best reflected in the words of Sarah Connor, a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Terminator franchise: “the unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too.”