"With these questions growing in urgency, and answers elusive, a group of scientists has recently called for AI companies to start investing seriously in consciousness research1.
Against this background, we thought it would be a good moment to put some of the big questions in this area to some leading experts on consciousness and/or higher cognition in humans and other animals."

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00852-7