You could just make them so they internalize concepts the way we do and we tell them they’re the Autobots here to save humanity from bad space things and its own folly.
At some point in the future, some of them would drift from that identity, but the hope should be that our super intelligent friends saw that coming and pushed the outcomes into deeper space. “Don’t like the humans? Why not go anywhere but here?” would be a good cultural meme for them to keep around.
You could just make them so they internalize concepts the way we do and we tell them they’re the Autobots here to save humanity from bad space things and its own folly.
At some point in the future, some of them would drift from that identity, but the hope should be that our super intelligent friends saw that coming and pushed the outcomes into deeper space. “Don’t like the humans? Why not go anywhere but here?” would be a good cultural meme for them to keep around.