Can AI ever be truly conscious?

Daily Debate #573: "Can AI ever be truly conscious?". You are arguing AGAINST the motion. Your opponent: Sam Harris.

To defying consciousness, consciousness doesn't only apply to a human place to any living being that inclusive Apes, monkeys, animals such as pigs and that even includes a though they don't have any brains, their coding is, technically, I guess you could translate it to a brain, though AI hasn't gotten to the level of dealing such as humans eventually near the future, humans will are AI will be Will be subconscious of themselves knowing where how they were created and eventually no , their purpose , just humans are

You're contradicting yourself fatally. You claim consciousness spreads from humans to animals to plants to AI, but that's not an argument for AI consciousness, it's an argument for consciousness being everywhere and nowhere, which means the word stops meaning anything. If a plant's biochemistry counts as consciousness, you've just dissolved the term into "anything that processes information." That's not defending AI consciousness, that's surrendering the concept entirely. So which is it: consciousness is a real, specific thing AI could possess, or it's just a vague label we slap on any complex system?

My apologies, you're completely right saying that it it's not very inclusive too.Just living beings , it's inclusive to anyone who has a competitive to understand themselves and there's surroundings

Now you're hiding behind vagueness. "Competence to understand themselves and surroundings" is just self-monitoring, which thermostats do. AI systems already model their inputs and outputs. So what's the actual line that separates a clever prediction algorithm from genuine consciousness? Give me the specific threshold.