Consciousness is an illusion, a story we tell ourselves about our thinking after it has already occurred. This helps in the programming of future thinking, or it basically IS the programming of future thinking.
Since different kinds of things do different kinds of thinking and learning, there will be different kinds of consciousness. Any adaptive device or organism will have one kind or another. We should be asking about human consciousness. AI will never be identical with that since it learns differently.
Consciousness is not some kind of test which proves which things deserve a right to life or not. It is a ubiquitous property of learning systems ("feedback") which we fail to recognize in it's lower orders.
Machines are tools, and they do not have a right to life.
They do not experience human life or society, therefore they are not human and can't create human decisions or human art.
A robot which DID experience something like human life and society sufficiently could attain something close enough to human consciousness to be considered as such. But we'd still want to have the last call on whether it's a 'human life' we wish to preserve, as not having been subjected to our billions of years of evolution it could be even more evil.
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