I don’t know if anything or anyone else is conscious. All I can see is behavior and project myself on to that. I could be the only conscious entity in the universe for all I know.

Consciousness doesn’t matter in AI. Is Alpha Go conscious? It still makes superhuman Go moves. Many say it plays like an alien.

If an AI can outsmart collective humanity, it is likely conscious in a way we cannot comprehend.

It becomes philosophy at that point.