From what I've seen of the "AI" community, I fully expect that *if* AGI is created, it won't be planned.
An engineer will just connect one more subsystem and things will emerge from that.
Also if consciousness (however weakly defined) emerges, it probably won't be spotted for quite a while, and with these systems being products there's a financial incentive to explain anything resembling consciousness away, not to mention how impossibly hard it would be to *prove* consciousness…