You assume everyone will think as you. And have you noticed that some countries are at peace with each other, yet they spy on them (trade market, political action, etc). The whole reason we have been able to achieve so much (apart from our frontal lobe), is because we can harness and channel that hunger for power into other areas. If you take that away, we would achieve nothing (and likely a substantial portion of the brain).
So channel it into other areas! Into art, science, wargames.. but not real war.
Isn't the power to stop death better then the power to cause it?
Because to merge my consciousness with everyone, so that there is no distinction between any...it prevents allows others to see the falseness in their actions, and to remove the doubt they have of how others view them.
If between the 1300's and the 1600's (and even into the 1950's) people from all europe, spain etc. were all made to pray to God, on penalty of death (or imprisonment and torture (except 1700's onwards)) with an ever threatening Inquisition, and even Crusades, why should they care if the focus of their belief be shifted (though they would have to be condiioned and such)?
Merge your consiousness, and you cease to exist.
And the Inquisition was evil. We should be moving forwards.
An AI wouldn't want to do anything but survive. Even being an AI can't give them complex emotions like us. It would only have basic instincts (like a need for social interaction) and such (though even that would need to be programmed in).
How do you come to that conclusion? Theoretically an AI could do anything we could do. I just think it wanting power to survive, grow would be the most natural and logical aim. But it could be programmed to be illogical.