For AI, yes.
For AGI? Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria?
Why would AGI care? Which now runs the planet?
Considering the lengths many people go to help preserve nature and natural areas, yes, I would sayany people care about the uniquely ant experience.
> Do you care about uniquely ant experience? Bacteria?
Ethology? Biology? We have entire fields of science to these things so obviously we care to some extent.
I think it's academic because I suspect we're much further from AGI than anyone thinks. We're especially far from AGI that can act in physical space without human "robots" to carry out its commands.
...Well, why would aliens care, when they take over the planet? Or the Tuatha De Danan come back and decide we've all been very wicked? Because right now, those are just about as likely as AGI taking over.
Why would AGI choose to run the planet?