"What then?
Would we grant him citizenship in the human race?

Would we allow him to procreate unchecked?

Would he and those like him be integrated into human society? If so would machines be allowed to vote for the leaders of men?

Would he build his own machine city, like 01 in The Animatrix? If so would it be a sovereign nation? And would it kick our asses in productivity?

Would you want your daughter to marry him? She would be a queen of machines.

Would we have really won?"

"What then?
1. Would we grant him citizenship in the human race?

2. Would we allow him to procreate unchecked?

3. Would he and those like him be integrated into human society? If so would machines be allowed to vote for the leaders of men?

4. Would he build his own machine city, like 01 in The Animatrix? If so would it be a sovereign nation? And would it kick our asses in productivity?

5. Would you want your daughter to marry him? She would be a queen of machines.

6. Would we have really won?"

"Evil is relative, the meaning of the question is, would there still be a threat? As in would JH always see an alliance with mankind as beneficial, or would war with him be an eventuality?"

"This is assuming human nations don't re emerge after the war. And quite frankly, I see humans fighting with each other more than I do the machines.

And this also depends on who John Henry sides with. He was Built in the USA, lived in the USA, and was taught by Americans, will he pledge loyalty to the reconstituted United States or will he form his own nation? Where? Assuming Connor decides to lead the US and doesn't just think his duty is done because the war is (a messiah like figure like Connor can never retire, because bad people would emerge and do things in his name) and John gives land to John Henry... what then?

There's going to be a lot of pissed off nations at the US for Skynet coming out of America. Skynet was based in America, used American nukes, and was developed by Americans.

I see retribution against America as the more likely scenario than John Henry going to war with humanity."

"One of my favorite scifi subjects is space travel. Getting some of our eggs out of this one basket and onto other habitable worlds would help insure our survival.

For intelligent machines 'habitable' is a wider range of worlds. Even Earth's moon might apply. Would JH and friends reach for the stars? Would we try to beat them to it? Would we join them in the endeavor?"

"@markingswall: With the population it depends. There will be just shy of 7 billion humans in 2011. We also need to take into account that the estimates presented in T2 or T1 on world deaths also involved a lot more nuclear weapons. There have been significant decreases in the amount of nukes in the 13/15 years between T2 and TSCC JDay.

There is also debate on just how many would die. I've seen the usual armageddon, we-all-die predictions, with counter predictions that maybe 2 billion would die in nuclear war tops. Many would die from the ensuing problems. But I can see maybe half or a little more than half the world population surviving."

"I see us coexsisting for awhile and then someone/thing going and screwing everything up and we repeat the same pattern again. "