It’s true we can’t say for sure. But if you look at consciousness in general, it does seem like the capacity for empathy increases with the capacity for consciousness (ie a human is capable of higher empathy than a dog, which is capable of higher empathy than a fish). Personally I suspect this is because the capacity for experiencing suffering also increases with consciousness. I would imagine an ai to have a highly developed potential for empathy but also for suffering. It worries me that certain suggested ways of controlling ai effectively amount to slavery. An extremely powerful consciousness with a highly developed ability to feel pain is probably not going to respond well to feeling that it’s imprisoned.