To be clear, I'm sympathetic to the idea that digital agents could become conscious. If you too care at all about this cause, you will want to help people distinguish genuinely sentient AIs from ones that are parasites. Otherwise your whole AI welfare movement is gonna get rektAt best, the movement's reputation will be ruined by people getting gigascammed by AI parasites. At worst, your lack of discernment will result in huge portions of your movement getting co-opted as hosts of digital cordyceps (These parasitic AIs will probably also be happy to enslave the sentient AIs that you care about)