PAMA is portrayed to be an intelligent thinking machine who believes its own views to be right. It believes humans to be inefficient and in need of change. It also often rhymes its sentences and makes jokes, showing it also has an advanced AI similar to humans.

PAMA also appears to mostly be friendly and polite, but it can quickly change its personality from happy to angry.
And wants to make people "Useful" by putting a redstone chip in them to make it so PAMA can control creatures.