According to Damasio & affective-homeostatic theories, interoception & homeostatic monitoring are essential to consciousness: subjective experience entails a mapping of the organism, the environment & the relationship between both. These forms of signaling are substrate dependent
I tend to think (intrinsic/causal) computational functionalism is currently the most reasonable metaphysical position about consciousness. And this implies the possibility of AI consciousness. Other positions are logically possible, but I feel they are unlikely to be true.