According to Schneider, if consciousness is tied to a slow information processing speed of the brain but self-improving AIs could process much faster, or if only organic, carbon substrates like ours produce consciousness, then options:
a) we should see consciousness surely arising in machines within a few decades.
b) AIs' being information processing systems like human brains don't necessarily mean they're conscious.
c) AIs cannot in principle be regarded as capable of consciousness.
d) consciousness should be seen as an evolutionary process.
