The day a machine appears to care if we switch it off, CEOs will discover a problem no policy can address yet. We’d be fooled if we believed a bot was conscious when it wasn’t, and could create a new class of exploited beings if we assume a bot isn’t conscious when it is. Both attract legal hassles.
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