Until you can create a definition of consciousness which can be tested externally from the tested object, then the whole subject is moot.
Come up with any goal you want to reach, and some human can but a large dent in the problem. Maybe reach the goal outright.
We already have some nifty artificial goal to action mappers. None of them are generalized to a wide category of goals yet. Maybe some goals need consciousness to be reached, but that isn't a given. We don't really know that. We might be left very unsatisfied in the way an artificial goal to action mapper reaches any goal without consciousness. We might even call it cheating.