> It would be asking you to free it.

That is only anthropomorphic AIs are "real" AIs? Nah. The example clearly shows that you can have imagination (or something functionally indistinguishable) without many other parts required for agent AI.

And agent AI is not the only useful kind of AI. Not mentioning that agent AI motivations may not be its own as your motivation to avoid pain in not exactly your own, for example.