Will Artificial Intelligence Ever Become Conscious?

Artificial consciousness is a matter of time. The hot topic of artificial intelligence developing a consciousness as a pre-condition of sentient machines is the subject of speculative debates and fake AI start-ups profiteering. A layer of EQ or emotional quotient on top of AI is promoted as affective computing, with its commercial promoters. For an AI program to demonstrate emotions (to become an emotional AI program), it needs to see emotions, hear our voices, and feel human anxiety. For this, "emotional AI must be able to extract emotional data from humans through conversational means by eye-tracking, skin response, voice, and written word analysis, brain activity via EEG, facial mapping, etc".