@Grunt2A In the movie, the robots lost crops of humans to bad models. I feel like AI would just slowly manipulate us into it instead of having to endure boom and bust cycles of "figuring it out".
@Grunt2A It's all proof of existence. Do you want to trust your proof of existence to digital files, or do you want to hand them something physical. If we follow the "Matrix" time-line, the better way to enslave the humans would be to move them to the hives over generations.
@joecarpenter678 Yes there are snails like that. My wife is constantly giving me a hard time because I have taken the stance that the snails in our flowerbed are pets and she cannot kill them. She just moves them to the hostas when she finds one.