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What if they were created in a good environment and then abruptly destroyed because the AI only needed to simulate them for a few moments to get whatever information it needed?
Well - what if a real person went through the same thing? What does your moral intuition say?
That it would be wrong. If I had the ability to spontaneously create fully-formed adult people, it would be wrong to subsequently kill them, even if I did so painlessly and in an instant. Whether a person lives or dies should be under the control of that person, and exceptions to this rule should lean towards preventing death, not encouraging it.