A very important aspect of being human in my eyes is feeling and judging things into good and bad- as all life does. Up to now. AIs don‘t have a body, so they can‘t feel, and to my knowledge, they don‘t categoryze into good and bad, so I don‘t think they are anyway close to consciousceness - they are just well-trained textprocessing programs .

Betrand Russels „A History of Western Philosophy“ will give you a good overall knowledge about the most important ideas in Western Philosophy. It‘s a bit lengthy( 1000 pages), but comparatively easy to read.