Boy the plot escalates fast.
What the fuck is wrong with letting prof have his small fun playing house with AI? What do you fucking mean "AI is fake", she fucking isn't, as long as its her memories mainly she will be fine, and other memories will be assimilated over time. Fuck, even we loose more of our personality (habits, preferences, even some of our memories) as we live and grow older, so by that idiotic logic we are by far more "fake' than AI in her stasis state.
Furthermore, instead of focusing on real world and disconnecting people who are not to be born in simulation and therefore are "stuck in forever loading screen", ejecting them back into real world, all while maintaining simulation, MC goes with the most retarded idea: kill prof?
I call bullshit on all this. The plot just went full retard.