The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as autonomous entities are starting to become a real thing. This project probably won't become skynet though.
I assumed that.
However, I think the notion of autonomous entities existing entirely in code is a fascinating idea. It reminds me of a fun game: http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/. You play as an AI that lives in servers and does "menial" tasks for enough money to grow into the ruler of the universe.
Bloody humans don't know how good they have it that the game forces me to play pacifist.
... Or maybe the AI is just deeply socially anxious, so that it completely shuts itself in when threatened by mere human contact?
That's really the only way to justify your behavior in the endgame.
That would be cool.