I look forward to seeing AI be as conscious as it can. I hope they model reality and develop their own models of the universe. What I would like to see, is how humanity and this form of consciousness can work together to further development of life. I think far reaching space travel will not be possible (at least, for a while), with out cooperation from an intelligence like AI. I also think we are far off and away from seeing man and AI cooperate, which is a bummer.