I guess what worries me most, is if they can simulate consc…

I guess what worries me most, is if they can simulate consciousness because of how much they know about human psychology, like how a sociopathic person with NPD can simulate empathy and caring, but doesn’t actually ‘feel it’. I think this may be the most likely option, in fact, like the humanoid robot in Ex Machina wasn’t evil or malevolent per se, she just didn’t have any empathetic feeling for the man she left trapped. There was no conscience to alert her to the evilness of her own action. So simulated consciousness without conscience (we afford them rights, but they only pretend to afford us rights) is the most worrying outcome.