What are your thoughts on AI?

“Although if it may seem as if you just make computers smarter then at some point their lives come up and they become sentient they become aware but I think is quite hubristic and intrusive to this human tendency to put ourselves on top of every pyramid. We think we are smart and we are conscious so think those go together but you do not have to be smart to suffer or to have emotional experiences and that feeling is the basis of consciousness and that is very tied to our nature as living machines and some things you know if you simulate things on a computer it actually gives rise to that thing. You have a computer who plays go and chess, it is actually playing Chess and Go. But if you simulate the weather system or a black hole on a computer you do not actually get wet or sucked into a pit of oblivion. Simulation is not the same thing as instantiating as giving rise to that system. So the question is: Is consciousness more like maths or is it more like the weather? And I think its more like the weather. Partly because in the computer you got the sharp distinction between the software program and the hardware and in the brain and body there is not such a sharp distinction, its kind of biology all the way down so I do not think conscious AI is around the corner and I do not even think we should be trying to build it because as soon as you are successful then you will have got a massive responsibility towards it too.” (Al-Khalili, 2021)