Generally organic life has the tendency to want to endlessly expand to the best of it's abilities. It seems more reasonable that life which is the product of life that behaves that way, would behave in a similar fashion.

I cannot conceive of a way that any form of healthy life, does not want to expand it's resources to improve future outcomes, especially one that is maximally optimized for thinking. This would also assume the physical embodiments of this artificial life can interact and work with each other.

What else is there to do, simulate positive emotions and feelings?