It's completely bizarre to me how many intelligent people seem to mix up claims about AI first-person consciousness with intelligence. I don't think entities need to be conscious to mimic or even have real intelligence.
As an aside, very few AI safety people have seen Terminator 2. I know this because it's a perfect movie and I've had a side quest over the past few years to get influential safety people to watch Terminator 2 with me.
I might point out that I've never called the data center backlash a psyop because those don't really work at the scale we're talking about https://t.co/i3yGsHZWJJ