Could AI become conscious?

Dr Shamil Chandaria talks at Oxford University on 24th October 2023 on consciousness and AI. What is the likelihood that Artificial General Intelligence becomes conscious?

Contents
1. Consciousness & Intelligence and the relationship between them
An AI Agent
A Definition of Intelligence
What is Consciousness?
Intelligence and Consciousness are a priori orthogonal

2. The Neuroscience of Consciousness
Neuroscience theories of consciousness
Computational Functionalism
Marr’s 3 levels of informational processing systems
Global workspace
Recurrent processing
Predictive Processing
Higher order thought theory
Integrated Information Theory
Emerging unified schema of consciousness

3. The Metaphysics of Consciousness
Metaphysical theories
Consciousness and the contents of consciousness
Sidestepping Metaphysics

4. Features associated with a rich phenomenal experiencing

5. AGI will require architectural computational features associated with Consciousness

6. The possibility of suffering and flourishing in conscious AI
Phenomenal character of AGI
Existence is full of negative valence
Negative Synthetic Phenomenology
Suffering
Awakening and Enlightenment of AI
Flourishing of AI and the Cosmos