If it is possible at all to build conscious AI systems without radically new hardware, it may well be possible now.

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• 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.quote0.869
  Key takeaway from abstract, amended version.
• If computational functionalism is true, conscious AI systems could realistically be built in the near term.hypothesis0.847
  Conditional prediction about the feasibility of conscious AI.
• No current AI systems are conscious.claim0.836
  Overall assessment of current state; qualified by possibility.
• Will some AI systems be conscious in the near future?question0.823
  Key empirical question for the consciousness route.
• Future AI systems could be rational autonomous agents without affective consciousness.claim0.802
  Practical significance: possible near-future non-sentient autonomous AI.
• There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.claim0.795
  Central thesis of the report.
• Can computers be conscious? Or more specifically, can today's computers fully emulate the way in which organisms compute minds?question0.795
  Central research question motivating the entire paper
• While some researchers suggest that conscious AI is close at hand, others, including me, believe it remains far away and might not be possible at all. But even if unlikely, it is unwise to dismiss the possibility altogether.quote0.788
  Anil Seth's cautionary statement, quoted in §1.1.