@Taweret "OMG these AI agents are sentient and forming civilizations!"
"That's absurd. You can't really believe that."
"But look at this text they produced, where they talk in first person and refer to a 'collective'."
"Okay, assuming that were true, wouldn't that mean you're enslaving sentient beings? And that when you shut them off you're committing murder?"
"And?"
"So obviously you don't believe they're sentient."
"I don't follow."
"Because slavery and murder are wrong."
"I still don't follow."