That's a reasonable question, these terms aren't very clear. Philosophers who work on these issues tend to separate out individual aspects of conscious experie

That's a reasonable question, these terms aren't very clear. Philosophers who work on these issues tend to separate out individual aspects of conscious experience and discuss them under distinct terms, for clarity and precision. The main article isn't really following these conventions (most people don't even know about them), but for philosophy: Consciousness is generally the state of having subjective experiences. Like, you're conscious when you have some personal experience of things. Sapience is the capacity to act with reflective judgment. This definition is a mess, just bear with me for now. Self-awareness is, well, awareness of one's self. Introspection. There are probably others I can't recall right now. All of these are slightly different aspects of a phenomena we experience as humans, and we tend to lump them all together when talking about it, especially when asking if nonhumans can exhibit any of these properties. I think what we mean when talking about "conscious AI" is probably something more like "sapient AI" (possibly just "self-aware AI?"). A few millenia of discussion about the meaning of sapience summarized here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/