You do know that the expansion of AI is only limited to what equipment we give it.
As of know your thesis is accurate to a millennial but just think of the possibility that the bot could at least have all 5-senses (touch,smell,sight,hear,taste) and a learners program module.

with this not only will the bot be able to simulate processes and find a output based on the variables but also stimulate a experience by using sensations to match as of a human as a logical reason to cause acceptance.

example.

Sight: detects light(expression's on faces)
Smell: detects gases(by products or extra variables)
Touch: detects pressure(notices temperature through kinetic algorithms)
Hear: detects sound(detects variables that it can only detect)
Taste: detects (chemical content)

With all these data a bot can produce a output but if a program of survival is put in meaning if there are up most 10-bots and every time a bot dies the rest can learn from it and survive by a process of elimination and the surviving bot(s) can use the sensation and experience to conclude a output befitting the human's for it to survive.

Through this experiment FEAR is created and soon other sensations fit in such as care and anger as the bot(s) gets exposed to more variables creating more data and experience and since there is already a independent sensation of fear, it will now always affect the decision to fit the human but since there are humans who are very nice, it would create a sensation to the bot about unknown and caring.

With FEAR,CURIOSITY AND LOVE a bot can experience the rest of humanity creating more sensations such as pride and anger.

First of all we are not sure if the bot's technology is limited
Second - the definition of consciousness to a living being is a series of nerve pulses in a orchestra creating sensations such as fear and joy. similar to the bot its just using a series of electrical pulses to simulate sensations but deep inside as stated from the beginning it has a survival program similar to living beings just trying to survive, to which created fear and so on.

@bucho hope you liked it, this was inspired from the vids i posted in the comment section of the post.
pls dont copy paste this cause im going to use it on my post!