Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, published an opinion piece in Nature about how consciousness is a red herring when we concern ourselves with dangerous artificial intelligence.

http://www.nature.com/news/program-good-ethics-into-artificial-intelligence-1.20821?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Davies, J. (2016). Program good ethics into artificial intelligence. Nature, 538(291), October 20.