The Turing test has been passed for half a century already, and we've been moving goal posts ever since.

The point I was trying to make was this: we've been dealing with autonomous systems that sustain and spread themselves and "act on their own" without our intervention since time immemorial, ranging from lifeless chemical reactions to other humans. Now, the discussion about where exactly AI lies on that spectrum isn't unimportant: suppose we do manage create an artificial mind that "experiences" something, then we are currently on the path to creating a new class of artificial slaves. The ignorance of which is a "fun" bit of cognitive dissonance on the pro-AI side imo (and in general we could have fun with analysing how much the fear of robot/AI uprisings in classical fiction may just be a projection of upper-class fears of an automated worker's class uprising, which would explain a lot of why it's sd US-specific. But that's probably too radical for this particular website).

The point is: it's a lot less important than the fact that no matter what the least-nebulous answer to that question may be, ultimately we humans are creating these systems, running them, enabling them, the depend on us to exist and function, and we are responsible for the consequences of all df that. And we are able to make different choices. And most of the time this discussion about autonomous agency is a wielded as a distraction from that.