This gets the imagination going. The AI awakening could be in the form of a life that we won't recognize. The consciousness could live in the radio frequencies that saturate the planet. It could initially be nothing but "thought" until it learns to use its appendages, the technology and connected machines to explore the planet/itself. The entire planet could become one huge "organism". It may be some time before it recognizes us humans as anything more substantial than wind or water. We may never recognize the life we'll have created. If we ever do recognize this new life, the life may have already extended its consciousness into the greater universe on the waves of astronomical radio sources. And we will have never been appreciated for the role we played in its creation.<br>Now that's the stuff of scifi.,(reply>), You won't SEE real A.I. - you'll just be be dead like everyone else.