The Discomfort of Politics in Response to Technological Change

I remember meeting with MPs from Labour, conservatives laying out these ideas and almost everyone just looked at me like I was completely crazy. There's much more of a comfort in politics within criminalism. And that's why often big change happens when you have a crisis. A super intelligent, artificial general intelligence, would it be conscious? I don't know. We just don't, we, consciousness is something as far as I can tell, we don't really understand at all.