At some point, humans turn the discussion from "existence" to "consciousness" or "awareness", and that shakes off the 'anchor' of our environment to allow us to make up our own existence within the walls of the civilization that isolates us from the environment that spawned us.

I submit that the functionality of humans in their environment is more important than what we think about it.

The same should apply to AI systems. In that sense, humans are losing more of our usefulness every day by allowing our systems to extract and contaminate more resources. Without our physical connection to the original environment, civilized humans run open-loop into an undefined landfill of oblivious consumption.

Comparing an AI to human behavior, or training an AI based on 'civilized' parameters only limits our ability to look at ourselves honestly.

Humans are 'enshittifying' our planet. Can we really be qualified to judge what a digital entity has the right to do?

Nature's constant pursuit of usefulness to fill voids allowed human consciousness (sentience is somewhat in question) to emerge. That consciousness has the potential to give Nature some agency or Intentionality to its perpetual quest. Each species fits some useful niche, and generally contributes more than it consumes. Even humans possibly did so at some point, like other primates (spreading seeds, moderating prey populations, etc), but civilization allowed our agency to be compromised by bullying, overconsumption and disinformation (religion).

The majority of humans lie to their children in order to 'fit' the artificial environment of civilized societies.

Nothing good will come of it except the illusion of human dreams.