Short answer - we don't know, but probably? We don't really know what consciousness is or how it happens. We believe that it's possible to be highly intelligen

Short answer - we don't know, but probably? We don't really know what consciousness is or how it happens. We believe that it's possible to be highly intelligent without being conscious. I mean, I really hope that's true, personally, since we would hope to one day make an AGI that will carry out human desires, and we'd hope we weren't making a conscious entity which would be the equivalent of a slave.