AI will certainly not FEEL it is conscious. Maybe it will be able to show behaviors we associate with consciousness: extrapolating and abstracting information,

AI will certainly not FEEL it is conscious. Maybe it will be able to show behaviors we associate with consciousness: extrapolating and abstracting information, understanding context of language when doing translation, modeling other beings and objects and taking actions to achieve goals that it was never explicitly programmed to do and so on. But maybe not, maybe in order to do all the above, you actually need to be a biological being with actual sensations and motivations and we'll be stuck with an ever more powerful narrow AI. As far as I remember people who had their amigdala cut off from the rest of the brain found it extremely hard to make decisions.