That's because the people who are building the AI actually know how it works, understand how fundamentally simple it all is, and know that there's no room for c

That's because the people who are building the AI actually know how it works, understand how fundamentally simple it all is, and know that there's no room for consciousness to magically emerge. The current state of AI is not so much a story of any kind of "intelligence" being amazing, but rather the sum total of humanity's data being amazing. The amazing feats LLMs perform come from the words we all wrote, not the code they wrote. The code just unlocks the previously latent power of all that data. It is nothing close to being an actual intelligence, regardless of how much we anthropomorphize it. We also anthropomorphize stick figures, stuffed animals, and weighted companion cubes.