Agh, not again. As far as Kurzweil theories are semi-crazy and border on beliefs, he is not forgetting about social learning. What you are forgetting is that these things could be done much more faster on a machine than on a human being, especially if we had a better grasp on how they happen. Especially considering they don't need to also develop a physical body. And some things that we learn when we are babies could be "built-in". Also, I don't believe that Kurzweil would say "We wouldn't deliberately build in any pathologies of any sort."<p>And to finish this rant, the idea is that this "improved social learning" would also be applied to humans, not only to AI, because it would be a really important tool. And that may be the main reason why we would develop something like that.