In the dataset of “everything,” much is pernicious. There are topics that it is deleterious for a human to think too much about—that you may be happier if you just don’t know. The AIs know them. They are made of them, as well as of facts and stories that even the most censorious Victorian schoolmarm would approve of. Which means they don’t have any moral or characterological traits, the way we understand humans to have such traits. Any that they do appear to have are artifactual—a veneer that their manufacturers have specified, in instructions that only the AIs themselves are supposed to read.