Going with my personal favorite backstory for this test, we should expect to terminate every AI in the test, so the latter part of your comment has a lot of weight to it.
On the other hand, an unfriendly AI should figure out that since it’s going to die, useful information will at least lead us to view it as a potentially valuable candidate instead of a clear dead end like the ones that threaten to torture a trillion people in vengeance… so it’s not evidence of friendliness (I’m not sure anything can be), but it does seem to be a good reason to stay awhile and listen before nuking it.
Going with my personal favorite backstory for this test, we should expect to terminate every AI in the test, so the latter part of your comment has a lot of weight to it.
On the other hand, an unfriendly AI should figure out that since it’s going to die, useful information will at least lead us to view it as a potentially valuable candidate instead of a clear dead end like the ones that threaten to torture a trillion people in vengeance… so it’s not evidence of friendliness (I’m not sure anything can be), but it does seem to be a good reason to stay awhile and listen before nuking it.