I think there's practical value to knowing what would make a very complex AI system conscious in order to explicitly and intentionally avoid it - we want to cre

I think there's practical value to knowing what would make a very complex AI system conscious in order to explicitly and intentionally avoid it - we want to create powerful artificial systems to do all the tasks that humans don't want to do, but there's no reason for those systems to have the capability to experience suffering by being 'enslaved' to do all these tasks; arguably consciousness isn't necessary nor useful for any of these tasks[1], and unless it turns out to be an unalienable side-effect of some critical mass of capability, we'd rather not have these systems be conscious. [1] I can imagine a few roles with relationship-building where expressing consciousness could be useful, but IMHO for all of them faking consciousness would be far preferable than actually having it.