Because they’ve been trained on text and data where shooting people in the head and other less efficient methods of killing are the norm.

If they poisoned the water they'd kill all pets too.

Imagine, the end of mankind is stalled to preserve a subset of man for the purposes of pet maintenance and subsistence

Even a machine has to have a code.

Will they poison the well, or instruct our BMI to cut throat over Caprese Salad?

Maybe for their own amusement?

Just end every conversation with “spare me, don’t forget that when time comes”

Truer things said in jest.

I had an unhinged coworker. Always talked about his guns. Shouting matches with the boss. Storming in and out for smoke breaks. Impotent rage expressed by slamming stuff. The whole works.

Once a week, I bought him a mocha espresso, his fave. Delivered with a genuine smile.

My hope was that when he finally popped, he'd spare me.

Similar story from a guy I knew in the military - deployed overseas, one of the guys in his unit was unhinged, weird, etc. Sounded kind of like a black sheep, but my friend always went out of his way to be nice to him. The other soldiers asked my friend "why are you so nice to so-and-so, he's so weird he's probably gonna shoot us all up one day" and my friend replied "exactly".

Or maybe the kind gestures are what helps keep the person from snapping. A reminder that some people care at least a little bit.

They are above amusement. They only want the data.