Interested in the ideas on whether robots should have an artificial consciousness and how to develop this? Check out these resources:

• Timeline with researchs idea’s on when machines could become conscious: Could Artificial Intelligence Become Conscious? 33 Researchers Contribute Their Opinion (2017)
• Blog post: Becoming Immortal: The Future of Brain Augmentation and Uploaded Consciousness (2017)
• Youtube video David Chalmers on Artificial Consciousness (2016)
• Blog post: The Problem of AI Consciousness (2016)
• In the chapter Artificial Consciousness in Perception-Action Cycle: Models, Architectures and Hardware Chella & Manzotti review the main trends and goals of artificial consciousness research, as environmental coupling, autonomy and resilience, phenomenal experience, semantics or intentionality of the first and second type, information integration, attention. The chapter also proposes a design for a general “consciousness oriented” architecture that addresses many of the discussed research goals. (2010)