Preciousness of a resource depends on it's availability. Consciousness is precious now because it is fragile and non-replicable. With AI it would be possible t

Preciousness of a resource depends on it's availability. Consciousness is precious now because it is fragile and non-replicable. With AI it would be possible to copy any state and undo any change, so who cares if you create a copy of an AI and torture it, as long as you use your own computational resources, it's not any different than thinking. After all you may even not know wether you are torturing an ai, or doing arithmetics.