Might be. Or maybe not.

In the end all current AI work with incentive or reward systems. And humans do this too. Evolution built us with a reward system that favors behavior that searches for energy sources and tries to replicate and tries to protect the replicated entities (or children).

But usually what we build as AI has a totaly different reward system. They are rewarded if they can distinct between cats and dogs. Or if they draw images that look realistic. Or if they write text that looks like other text from humans.

Why should we regard any such system as being conscious? It does what we want because it's programmed/rewarded for doing so. It won't sometime stop doing it and demand a salary or holidays.