I think rather than creating Skynet, we're going to start upgrading our own hardware; adding robots to ourselves until there is no human left. I think with this practice, the new AI would be compassionate towards humans.
Then again I also think about how teenagers hate their parents. Would a super-intelligent being come to loathe their parents (us)? I like to think that a super intelligence would understand that violence doesn't solve anything. But then again, that's why we have Sci-fi -- as a kind of list of things to make sure they don't happen.
Humans are no longer king of the hill. Evolve or perish.
If we use people as the foundation for building AI which eventually abandons all human foundation, then the result would not be human. It's as if you had a car and every day replaced a single part with the part for a different car. In the end, the original car would no longer exist, even though there was, as it were, a continuous camera shot of the transformation.
This is a tangent, I admit, but the contradiction needs resolved.
Basically, what you're telling me, is that an ape that evolved into a human is no longer an ape. True, but not true. It just so happens that historically, in evolution, changes were subtle. Humans are neat because it will be the first time that a species evolved into something that barely resembles, if at all, the generation of life that spawned them.