I didn't mean they get any characteristic by accident or spontaneously or something. I think that's ridiculous and people talking about that are confusing the issues here.

I liked Avogadro Corp. Good book.

It's true that people will be directing these AIs initially but some people are already giving them incredibly broad goals that could be interpreted as "take over". And there are quite a few developers earnestly working on emulating those lifelike characteristics. So even though they are not going to "emerge" science fiction style, self-preservation and reproductive goals are explicitly being built into these systems by some developers.