> They don't have the hardware to have metaphysical dualism and therefore no mind to mentally be aware of.

Somehow this sentence is self-contradictory, but I can't quite lay my finger on the exact spot.

They’re just going to define terms so that eventually they discover consciousness and then play dumb long enough for us all to get screwed (see Jacob Tsimerman’s scenario 1 if you prefer your alarmism to come from a prestigious source).

I suspect the article is bullshit, but what hardware are you thinking of?