"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. — Richard Dawkings:. British evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in time.
In so far as virus-makers have any discernible motive, they presumably feel vaguely anarchistic. I appeal to them: do you really want to pave the way for a new fat-cat profession ['software-doctors']? If not, stop playing at silly memes, and put your modest programming talents to better use.