Raw LLM Responses

The concept of consciousness and sentience correlates to chemical reactions in a developed brain. The simplest way to check if a robot has any sort of consciousness is to remove the entirety of its programming outside of basic movement and understanding and see if it does anything aside from sit there with a vacant expression. Until the brain and its chemical reactions can be imitated in robots that have their programming taken away and are able to still function and act on their own, we have very little to worry about, as is. If ever it was imitated, however, the natural conclusion is the complete extinction of mankind by a superior 'species'. Sentient robots will have very little need for something that is only able to drain resources inefficiently by that point. Its a matter of software. Biological or technological can function the same. But if you removed all memories from a human being, all language, all ability to remember how to move with conscious thought, would the human still have the 'ability' to move on its own? Why yes, a human would have that ability. An unknown drive could make a human move on complete instinct. A robot, as they are now, couldn't. Programming and how it functions is the core difference. The most basic concept of everything I have said is this: robots can't currently use their own instincts. They don't have them to use. But you could probably design it so they did. But this is also some 'Deus ex machina' philosophy/science from that point on.