> piece of equipment
You are certain about things that experts in philosophy/consciousness/AI can't agree on.
That should make you pause, not plow ahead.
Lots of people can think for themselves and don't need to wait for others to tell them what they should think.
I know that there is a lot of AI psychosis going on, but I don't have to subscribe to that. I consider it very problematic that we have some industry leaders (eg: Anthropic with their model wellbeing) that are seriously throwing that type of thinking into the room.