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For this to occur, it has to be postulated that it will not be possible for two intelligent species to coexist peacefully with one another - especially if one is of much more advanced intelligence and power.{{fact}} While cybernetic revolt (postulating the machine as the more advanced species) is thus a possible outcome of machines gaining sentience, neither has it so far been disproven that a peaceful outcome can still occur. Human history, while not particularly impressive in man's treatment of fellow man or non-sentient animals, does not give any final clue to his treatment of, or treatment by, another sentience.
===Anthropomorphism===
Such fears stem from a belief that competitiveness and aggression are necessary in any intelligent being's goal system. But humans' competitiveness stems from the evolutionary background to our intelligence, where survival and reproduction of genes in the face of human and non-human competitors was the central goal. (See [http://www.singinst.org/ourresearch/presentations/ Creating a New Intelligent Species].) In fact, an arbitrary intelligence can have arbitrary goals: There is no particular reason that an artificially-intelligent machine would be hostile, or friendly for that matter unless its creator programs it to be such (and indeed military systems are designed to be hostile, at least to some people).
==In fiction==
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