I think you are confused about what an AI is.
AI doesn't imply self-awareness or conciousness.
You can make an AI that just regulates stuff without ever asking questions.
Yeah I mentioned that earlier. You need intelligence so that your machines can be autonomous and creative in their decision-making.
But you want to avoid self-awareness because you want to make sure they will obey.Consciousness is only desirable if you want to create a computational replica of your mind. If you want immortality or something.
What i'm trying to say is that most propably you would have to actually design the AI to have something like a conciousness for it to have one.
Our brains are pretty specific.
Unfortunately our conciousness feels so 'right' to us that we tend to think conciousness is a general thing. It is not. It's amazingly specific.