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.

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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.quote0.824
  Key takeaway from abstract, amended version.
• Will some AI systems be conscious in the near future?question0.814
  Key empirical question for the consciousness route.
• There is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic, and thus morally significant, in the near future.claim0.803
  Central thesis of the report.
• No current AI systems are conscious.claim0.802
  Overall assessment of current state; qualified by possibility.
• Recent AI advances are revolutionary but far from recapitulating human-like cognitive abilities or consciousness.claim0.802
• If computational functionalism is true, conscious AI systems could realistically be built in the near term.hypothesis0.796
  Conditional prediction about the feasibility of conscious AI.
• Consciousness in AI is best assessed by drawing on neuroscientific theories of consciousness.claim0.793
  Central methodological claim of the paper.
• If it is possible at all to build conscious AI systems without radically new hardware, it may well be possible now.quote0.788
  Striking claim about feasibility.