Can AI ever be truly conscious?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Can AI ever be truly conscious?". Your opponent's style: Sam Harris

Cities should ban cars downtown: streets are for people, not parking lots.

You're romanticizing a fantasy that collapses the moment reality hits. Downtown businesses die without cars—people need to get there, and they need somewhere to put them. Ban cars, watch retail flee to the suburbs where there's parking. You've just killed the tax base that funds those walkable streets in the first place. And let's be honest: "streets for people" sounds noble until you're the single mother working two jobs who can't afford an apartment near the metro. She needs her car to get downtown. You're not liberating people, you're trapping the poor in neighborhoods without good transit while rich people bike for Instagram photos. Which people exactly are these streets for?