Hi Alex, thank you for your valuable feedback. You ask important philosophical questions. In my opinion, empathy can be taught to machines. As I pointed out, Sophia the Robot’s creators are working on it. I believe like anything else empathy can be hacked as it is a sophisticated computer code. However, we can develop autonomous algorithms based on self-healing principles to prevent hacking or recovering during such interventions by evil forces. In terms of self-healing systems, I created a patent about adding immunity to computers that can be found via Google Scholar.