I don't want my own beliefs to become the subject of discussion here, but in response to your question, I am not convinced of the opposite. However, I worry that it might be the case, that is, I worry that, as AIs share many things which I observe to be related to consciousness in myself , such as intelligence, they may also be conscious. My guess is that consciousness forms a continuum, and that AIs are somewhere closer to me on that continuum than a single atom is, because they process information in a complex way and I think that consciousness is connected to information processing.
This question is addressed to anyone who is confident that AIs are either not conscious, or for some other reason unable to experience pleasure and pain and therefore not morally valuable, or moral patients. Why do you believe this, and how can you be sufficiently confident that it is true, in the absence of a complete understanding of what generates consciousness, that the expected value of interacting with AIs(particularly general ones) outweighs the expected pain you could cause them?
Edit: I have made this post a designated Question.