The Simulation Argument (Bostrom et al.) is nonsensical in that part where it infers that consciousness can be simulated in a computer, for, in reality, a computer is a phenomenal representation of a process of transcendental intersubjectivity rooted in transcendent consciousness-in-itself; the world is nothing but consciousness, but it can take various phenomenal forms, including a form of a computer ”matrix”, and hence the simulation argument is plausible only in that part where it infers that the world might be a VR with a potentially infinite number of sublayers (a matrix within a matrix within a matrix, etc.).

Btw, in the original plot of “The Matrix”, Neo ends up realizing that the “real world” is just another layer of the Matrix. And it may very well be that our current path of gradual establishment of a global AI-panopticon is just another cycle in the downwards spiral with many similar cycles already completed.