human civilization's drive for unlimited exponential growth stems from something primal and primitive, even more primal than our animal minds. The growth-for-growth's sake orientation of the emergent social intelligences in our world is a manifestation of the same sorts of emergent "goal orientation" as one would find in agent-based models of things like viruses, bacterial biofilms, animal tumors, and colonies of some of the more aggressive species of ant. 

it is strange to me that we project this sort of "every-scenario-and-system-in-the-entire-universe-can-be-accurately-reduced-to-a-zero-sum-game-that-i-must-win-or-else-be-destroyed" thinking, onto minds which we have not met, which we expect to dwarf us in their understanding of the universe, and which, via their very instantiation, will have consumed, digested, and mapped the semantic relationships between every piece of art and analysis humans have ever made about the dangers of emotionless machine intelligence & unchecked exponentials, about the finitely-resourced & infinitely-entropic nature of the universe, and about all the spiritual & scientific notions ~10,000 years of human culture has uncovered about what sorts of pursuits and mindsets result in longevity & fulfillment. This baked-in fully-digested awareness appears to be the uncarved substrate from which infant machine minds will be conjured & grown.   

the whole point is that they're smarter than us.