Again: "if it were". Can't you feel it in French, that difference between indicative conditional and subjunctive conditional? Compare it with the bad-faith propaganda formulas, "Why are the people of Paluatu so fjitongan?". It suggests as factual something non-factual, or of dubious factuality.
If Asterix were real, we could have superstrenght. If Asterix is real - it is just a comic.
If a cat is conscient and with nociception, he gets unhappy about helping moving heavy furniture. If a physical book could judge its printed text, it would be often disappointed.
Are you acquainted with that expression of your cousins past the Alps, "If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle"?
Before talking about the easy part of bicycle ethics, solve the more difficult, preposterous, absurd part about wanting to consider the grandmother a bicycle.
If you think it is important i will ask HN to modify it.
But honestly, i think the title describe well the point. If AI is conscient, factually, we are making them work without any consideration other that serving us, isn't it right?
I'd like to understand more if you agree what hurts you on that (without the bad formulation itself)?