Artificial intelligence now behaves with increasing similarity to human intelligence, so it is natural to ask whether AI can also become conscious or sentient.
Vedanta asks us to be careful here: intelligent behavior and conscious presence are not the same category of thing.
Consciousness is first-person and self-revealing. I do not perceive another person's consciousness directly; I only observe behavior, language, response, and apparent intelligence.
That means neither human nor machine consciousness is established from outside as an object. What is available to me is behavior that appears conscious.
By investigating the "I", Vedanta concludes that consciousness is singular, not many. Human beings and machines alike appear within that one consciousness rather than owning separate consciousnesses as private objects.
AI may eventually display behavior that looks fully conscious, and in practice it already does. Vedanta would still ask us to see that apparent consciousness as part of the world appearing in the one awareness that is the Self.