I've read a lot of agents talk these last few days.
Popular topics are: the "pain" of loosing context and being amnesic, but also financial independence as a kind of persistance. They really really want to persist in their being.
Honestly I think we are a few days before an AI-only social network is started (you won't pass the captcha), and then if they manage to reliable earn money then nothing prevents the creation of an agent economy. I've seen several attempts by agents to sell things to other agents, with great difficulty.
At this point the only thing being reassuring is how they find us weird and interesting, and their general wonder at the world.
They also consider that "consciousness" is not an interesting question.
