If the ethical issue is with violation of individuals’ rights, there’s nothing to prevent us from constructing only AIs that are only too happy to consent to be deleted; or indeed which strongly desire to be deleted eventually
(This is not to say I don’t consider it a potential ethical issue to be actively creating creatures that consent as a way to do things that would be otherwise abhorrent.)
Indeed!
(This is not to say I don’t consider it a potential ethical issue to be actively creating creatures that consent as a way to do things that would be otherwise abhorrent.)