There are certainly lots of people in Silicon Valley who are fascinated by the prospect of making machines with conscious experience, as you think is impossible, but few indications that this would be necessary to make non-conscious forms of AI into a factor that powerfully affects our future.
Currently, we don't know how to properly define "do what I mean / do what we really want" goal in a formal manner; if we had an superpowerful AGI system in front of us ready to be launched today, we wouldn't know how to encode such a goal in it with guarantees that it won't backfire. That's a problem that we still need to solve, and this solution is not likely to appear as a side-effect of simply trying to build a powerful/effective system.
However a more complicated example like having the AGI bring about world peace or clean up the environment could have undesirable side-effects because we don't know how to specify what we really want, or have conflicting goals. But that's the same problem we have with existing power structures like governments or corporations.
MN is rooted in the expulsion of the mind from the reality under consideration, in the process sweeping many things under the “subjective” rug that don’t fit the methodologies used to investigate reality. But now, when the mind itself becomes the object of explanation, when someone remembers that minds are, after all, part of reality, it is no longer possible to play the game of deference and one must deal with all of those things we’ve been exiling to the “domain of the subjective”. MN is wholly impotent here, by definition. Qualia? Forget it. That’s why MN tends to collapse into either some form of dualism or eliminativism, the latter of which is a non-starter, the former of which has its own problems.
And yet, despite the terminal philosophical crisis MN finds itself in, the chattering priesthood of Silicon Valley remains blissfully unaware, hoping to conjure up some fantastical reality through handwaving.