I can imagine the firsts AGIs being like a GPT-2ish kind of system that would not spell nonsense and would be able to remember and justify what it says and what's told. It would be general in the sense that it could be able to find solutions to different kind of problems by spelling out possible solutions. A system like that, is my intuition, wouldn't be close to be conscious or have agendas of its own. It will be a perfect chatbot. And I think for a while, that will suffice. I wonder how many companies would be interested in continuing the development of consciousness, which could bring unwanted problems to the business, when a super humanly knowledgeable chatbot would be enough for most situations. For once, people wouldn't be able to tell it's just a music box.,(reply>), Also it may be essential for merging with a.i. for it to have first hand experience with consciousness so that it can know if we're really still alive once uploaded.  We'll see...,(reply>), I'd prefer this for humanity but we certainly will push on so that those not us don't get it first