Actually, self preservation seems to be an emergent property of any goal. In any case, even if properly aligned AI wouldn't value self-preservation, current AIs are far from properly aligned and nobody knows how to align AI.
People fretting about whether AI is conscious and therefore deserves human rights are missing a key point: our system of rights and ethics derive not just from our intelligence but also our fragility, which AI doesn't have.
Imagine a world where everyone could make a backup of
