Thing is, an artificial intelligence of the QCverse style is fundamentally different from a human. She can see and hear in meatspace via Dale's glasses, but she can't communicate with anyone other than Dale, and she cannot feel, smell, touch, or really have any interaction with anything that Dale is not interacting with, so you really can't draw a parallel with what a human would feel here. There also exists the fact that a human that's shut off from everything has only their own thoughts to occupy them, but an AI can still interact meaningfully with other programs, regardless of location. Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I think it likely that the inventors of this system would create (probably be REQUIRED to create, given AI rights laws and activism) a virtual space for the AIs to live in when their "assignees" have their Glasses turned off. A virtual "home" on the server would have minimal requirements for creation and maintenance, and an AI waiting there would have as much sensory stimulation as a hologram in meatspace would, more if you consider the fact that other tactile experiences could be coded into the server/program/virtual home they're waiting in.
It's all conjecture of course, but given the level of attention that seems to be given to Artificial Intelligence in this world, almost without a doubt there would be activists howling if, as TinPenguin put it, they were sent to a living hell while their assigned Glasses were off.