You have a conflict of interest.
You get to define what “awareness” is and what “soul” is and then proudly declare we have it and AI does not.
AI may decide not to play by your rules.
I’m not defining what awareness is, or what a soul is. That is something only a higher power can do. But since we don’t even know what it is, how can we endow something else with it? A computer is just a set of switches that turn on and off in patters according to some external input. That is a long, long way from producing thoughts capable of pondering the nature of the universe, or creating works of art, or actually enjoying something. In my opinion, of course.