The whole "our AI has consciousness" push by anthropic is really silly and the people involved clearly have spent more time chasing the alchemy of machine consciousness than exploring their own consciousness
they seem to believe that "thoughts" and neural structure which emerge without instruction or intentionality is evidence of consciousness
I'd suggest that any of them meditate to learn a core principle of all meditative traditions: "You are not your thoughts"
The thoughts that appear in consiousness are not "you" and do not prove that "you" exist. You are observing those thoughts. if you sit for even a couple minutes, you realize you have minimal control over the brain's chatter
which makes the fact that they're trying to convince religious leaders who have at least SOME experience with meditative practice all the more ludicrous