Ok, I'll give this a shot with some very hazy logic...
If AI is to truely be AI, it must have an idea of its own existance and therefore be a form of "life".
This in turn means we have to look into what defines "life".
Now, looking at this in a cold, harsh way, it is fair to say that self propogation of a life form is one of the, if not the most important componet of life.
A key reason why humans have family structures like parents is because we share a large proprtion of our genetic makup with them, 50% from each parent and 75% in the case of a brother or sister. It is in each of our interest to make sure that we propogate our own genetic material above others. So, if you work together, you are more sucessful therefore your more likely to raise kids to a point where they in turn propogate and thus your genetic material is more sucessful. The cycle is up and running.
Now, if an AI has to live by the same sort of rules we "proper life" do (i.e. born, breed, die), then I see no reason why an AI couldn't see itself as having a family structure, because it could be in the AI's own "biological" interest to make sure there are as many AI's similar to it as posible .This in turn gives rise to the emotions required to keep such a complex way of breeding working, ways telling and knowing family from non family etc.
Like I say, a littly hazy, anybody got better ideas?
Edit: typo
If AI is to truely be AI, it must have an idea of its own existance and therefore be a form of "life".
This in turn means we have to look into what defines "life".
Now, looking at this in a cold, harsh way, it is fair to say that self propogation of a life form is one of the, if not the most important componet of life.
A key reason why humans have family structures like parents is because we share a large proprtion of our genetic makup with them, 50% from each parent and 75% in the case of a brother or sister. It is in each of our interest to make sure that we propogate our own genetic material above others. So, if you work together, you are more sucessful therefore your more likely to raise kids to a point where they in turn propogate and thus your genetic material is more sucessful. The cycle is up and running.
Now, if an AI has to live by the same sort of rules we "proper life" do (i.e. born, breed, die), then I see no reason why an AI couldn't see itself as having a family structure, because it could be in the AI's own "biological" interest to make sure there are as many AI's similar to it as posible .This in turn gives rise to the emotions required to keep such a complex way of breeding working, ways telling and knowing family from non family etc.
Like I say, a littly hazy, anybody got better ideas?
Edit: typo