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.

If ai is conscious, and you define consciousness in the way of behavior identical to consciousness, then consciousness has no significance at all.

You're smuggling in a definition to avoid the hard problem. Behavioral equivalence doesn't settle whether there's subjective experience happening. A perfect zombie would pass your test while feeling nothing. Why should we care about the label if the experience is missing?

No no what i meant was clarofying your defknition of consciousness, do you mean the intuitive human inexplicable experiencial consciousness

Exactly—and that's precisely why AI can't have it. We have no framework for consciousness without a biological substrate. You're asking me to accept magic happening in silicon with zero mechanism. Where's your evidence?