That's pretty much the common practice. After all, we're writing the GOOD GUYS here (well, more or less). As for WHEN... Noah Scott is the most prolific creator of Shelled Infomorphs, and even he only does it when he has a real need. Most do one or two and move on, given that most Fen (baring people like the Colonials) consider A.I.s to be people in their own right.
Sentience and even sapience seem to be an emergent phenomena when 'waving complex things, and is taken as something of an accepted risk. Deliberately cranking them out would be RUDE.
Sentience and even sapience seem to be an emergent phenomena when 'waving complex things, and is taken as something of an accepted risk. Deliberately cranking them out would be RUDE.