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An intelligent entity will want to survive

I don't see how that follows at all. You could have an intelligent entity, in the sense that you can ask it any question and it'll give a highly competent response, that is nevertheless completely indifferent about survival. Biological organisms have been formed by selection for survival and reproduction, so they have they operate accordingly, but I don't see the justification for generalising this to intelligences that have been formed by a different process. You would need some further assumptions on top of their intelligence - e.g. that their own actions are the dominant factor in whether they survive and replicate, rather than human interests.

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