Benefits of being a bot include:
Ability to clone yourself, and get your work down in half the time, by having two of you !
This means if you have the equipment, you could have a thousand of you'd doing stuff..
You can backup yourself, so in the event of your untimely death, you can be returned to your previous saved state.
You can pause over the really boring periods in history.
You can over cluck yourself and catch up on the last centuries TV you missed.