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Relevant, perhaps, but if you absolutely can't talk them out of it, the negative expected utility of allowing them to continue could outweigh that of being imprisoned for murder by a great deal.
Of course, it would take a very atypical person to actually carry through on that choice, but if humans weren't so poorly built for utility calculations we might not even need AGI in the first place.