I think the bigger question is when do we grant an information automata the right to survive? If we use evolutionary algorithms with survival as a selection bias (just like humans) eventually creatures that 'think' like us should emerge.

Whereas there are intelligent automata, like say a search engine, that absolutely could not care either way whether you turn it off or not. The survival selection bias is the difference, and it's seeing something struggle to survive that activates our empathy emotions to save it.

I imagine we'll know the line of when it would be 'evil' to go against our own instincts and turn off an intelligent automata that wants to survive when we see it