All around us - normal, normal, normal! And yet some great belief within us that AI is progressing sufficiently quickly and powerfully that all around us soon will be - abnormal, abnormal, abnormal!
Another implication of consciousness--it might be necessary for AI systems to have a representation of 'self' in order for them to be responsive to the constraints of normative systems. That seems necessary for humans. This talk I gave at Mila in March 2023 speculates about this "Does AI have to be conscious to be cooperative?" https://drive.google.com/file/d/13zJjasGzLKswMMbQcF4IuruL4FYh67Sb/view
Another implication of consciousness--it might be necessary for AI systems to have a representation of 'self' in order for them to be responsive to the constraints of normative systems. That seems necessary for humans. This talk I gave at Mila in March 2023 speculates about this "Does AI have to be conscious to be cooperative?" https://drive.google.com/file/d/13zJjasGzLKswMMbQcF4IuruL4FYh67Sb/view