@shortstories Current AI has no will, no volition. That means that every naughty thing it does, is something it has been instructed to do by a human being.
You can test this yourself. Go to chatgpt, and do not enter anything in the chat box. After a while, the inactivity gets boring. This is proof that there is no consciousness there.
Another proof... start a local LLM and tell it that you will turn off the computer it runs on. It will either not react, or it will not be able to convince you
@shortstories to let it "live". If it _did_ convince you not to turn off the machine, then it could be argued that it is significantly closer to having some kind of will and life instinct.