We kill billions of chickens per day knowing they are a sentient and sapient creatures and very few out there are stopping doing it. Humans, much less reality itself is monstrous.

You could call dealing with agents today something like the 1/20th compromise. Your kind of getting the scent of slavery, but some parts of it are still missing.

The problem here is the bus seems to have no brakes and we'll gladly continue down the path of creating organisms that may reject being treated like slaves with all the risks that introduces.