Grabbed a couple hours of sleep, wanna add on to Flere's point about humanity:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chrysalids#section_1
Great story, much lighter than a light novel, and most importantly,
contained many of the same settings and arguments put forward in the last bits of Alicization.
Kleeyook, all your points about AI seem to stem from a
fear of them getting too powerful. In other words, you're intrinsically recognising that a sentient AI is just as clever - or devious - as some of the worst men to have lived in history.
You say they can be both good and bad, but all you've said is that you think they can do good. That could barely count as balanced argument.
The root of this is whether we should view their souls as the same as ours. SAO speaking, there's no difference, so could one call them the same? Remember what I wrote in the PM, the whole SAO series can be thought of as an argument to say virtual reality will eventually become the same as reality.
The people in who live in the former will therefore, by this logic, be the same as people who live in reality.