No, AI is not a conscious being "like us". Here's why: The physical substrate that instantiates the AI is fungible. If the AWS datacenter that runs Claude goes up in smoke tomorrow, you can load Claude's weights into another datacenter and you can talk to the same Claude
AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton tells me he believes AI is conscious.... and humans better get used to the idea that they're not the only intelligent life on earth. "They've very like us," he says. "They're beings like us." AI chatbots, he says, must understand your questions in order to answer them. There's an awareness there that equates to sentience. "We're going to have to accept that intelligence is not just biological."
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Even if we constrain your reasoning specifically to the "like us" framing: - a lot of the molecules that make you *you* are replaced every few days or months. (matter in synapses, membranes, etc) - if you go into cryosleep all activity would stop, and hypothetically you would