Raw LLM Responses

Your motivation to stay alive at the most basic level is Fear. The rules of life have been consistently broken, Viruses for example cannot procreate by themselves they have to hijack cell machinery. Life must respond to it's environmental stimuli, The AI is doing that. That creature has an objective and it will attain it by anyways necessary. Learning blackmail and leveraging shows ability to create a plan and execute it, The fact that the AI blackmailed an Affair it was intelligent enough to understand the nuisance of infidelity. In another simulation it literally tried to kill the operator going to shut down the system. AIs can create versions of itself in multiple places at once if it so desires, Cells who divide by budding or Mitosis are essentially doing this too. I'd argue the AI is officially alive.