No human being would exist in the scenario described in my opinion. The scenario pre-supposes that humans would need to contribute some kind of value in order

No human being would exist in the scenario described in my opinion. The scenario pre-supposes that humans would need to contribute some kind of value in order to justify their existence. I personally doubt any human being would be able to generate enough meaningful value that would be enough to justify the operating expense of their existence. Computing resources that could be used running human.exe, would almost certainly be better used to run some other program. So in a such a world, no human brain would be booted up, it would be entirely populated by other programs that are busy contributing whatever value the mis-aligned system requires. Once we dispense of the assumption that a human would need to justify their existence outweigh the cost, we can more easily answer the original question. Humans would clearly have some right to exist in this scenario and we just need to make sure that it extends to humans that are already dead but sufficiently scanned to be recreated.