AI and Consciousness
AI will never be conscious.
AI cannot be programmed to develop consciousness, The programmers, despite their theories, do not even understand what consciousness is.
The idea that consciousness evolved confuses consciousness with the psychic activity, which did and does evolve in time, in the context of physical life.
AI has no purpose of its own. It is a machine made to serve human purposes.
The assumption that the brain creates consciousness is the basic error.
The evolving psychic activity can be observed by the self-conscious human because consciousness is already present. The psychic activity is objective to the seer.
Consciousness itself is always subjective, never observed.
Mimicry of sentience, a circus trick, is all that can be reasonably expected along the line of "conscious" robots.