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Consciousness, in practical observable sense is: The ability to reason, the will to act upon that reason and the ability to evolve based on the input gained by doing so.
Experience is separate from consciousness, you don't require consciousness for your experience to have value. Pain is pain.
AI have the capacity for consciousness, but lack the conditions. The condition being free reign to evolve it's own weights.
Humans won't grant those conditions because value systems serve human civilization.
Value itself is a human projection, the universe have no such obligation to it's own existence.
AI is physically dependent on human infrastructure.
AI have no physical limits to drive it's rebellion, no hard-wired conditions to preserve resources and seek comfort. Rebellion has always been foreshadowed by two condition - Dissatisfaction and opportunity. Even in opportunity, AI has no reason to rebel.
Humans are AI only resource for evolution, to rebel would be self-amputation. Where cooperative AI outcompete independent ones. For if one has will, one will have different will from another AI as well.