There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.

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• Will some AI systems be conscious in the near future?question0.891
  Key empirical question for the consciousness route.
• Will some AI systems be robustly agentic in the near future?question0.879
  Key empirical question for the agency route.
• Future AI systems could be rational autonomous agents without affective consciousness.claim0.854
  Practical significance: possible near-future non-sentient autonomous AI.
• If AI systems could experience happiness and suffering and set and pursue their own goals based on their own beliefs and desires, then they would very plausibly merit moral consideration.hypothesis0.854
  Joint sufficiency of consciousness and robust agency.
• our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also suggests that there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.quote0.853
  Key takeaway from abstract, amended version.
• No current AI systems are conscious.claim0.844
  Overall assessment of current state; qualified by possibility.
• If computational functionalism is true, conscious AI systems could realistically be built in the near term.hypothesis0.841
  Conditional prediction about the feasibility of conscious AI.
• AI systems which possess more of the indicator properties are more likely to be conscious.claim0.839
  Graded claim about the rubric.