My personal feeling is that AGI will never be 'created'. I have a feeling that we will push technology to such a point that there will be no more room for it to go other than consciousness. We were simply biological learning machines for millennia before we could even consider ourselves sentient let alone intelligent and so my gut feeling is that with the continual advancement of Neural Networks, the potential development of computronium and the consolidation of information into bigger and bigger models we will inevitably will consciousness into being. At which point we cannot call it 'Artificial' intelligence like the systems we use now (Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT etc). I can't quantify when this will take place nor can I guarantee that it will even happen but I cannot see any other way that we can create a being capable of both thought and feeling.