Researchers warn that artificial intelligence systems that achieve the ability to feel or are aware of themselves can experience suffering in case of irresponsible development, writes The Guardian.

In an open letter signed by more than 100 experts, including Stephen Fry, five principles were proposed for a responsible study of the consciousness of AI.

These principles emphasize the need to accept AI consciousness to prevent suffering, establish restrictions, phased development, transparency for the public and avoiding deceptive statements.

The letter is supported by a new research document, emphasizing moral and ethical issues related to potential future conscious, or at least creating the impression of conscious, systems.

The document states that conscious systems of artificial intelligence can be created in the near future.

The authors - Patrick Butlin from the University of Oxford and Theodorosos Lappas from the University of Athenian - note the need for leading principles even for companies that do not intend to create conscious systems, in case of "

They admit that there is a wide uncertainty and discrepancies regarding the definition of consciousness in artificial intelligence systems and whether it is possible, but they believe that this is a question that should not be ignored.

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Other problems considered by the document are focused on what to do with the system of artificial intelligence, if it is defined as a “moral subject” - the essence with rights and self -worth. In this scenario, the question arises whether the destruction of AI with the murder of the animal is comparable.

In 2023, Demis Hassabis, the head of the Google program for artificial intelligence and the Nobel Prize laureate, said that artificial intelligence systems are now “unconditionally”, but may become such in the future.

“Philosophers have not yet come to an accurate definition of consciousness, but if we mean a kind of self -awareness, I think that AI can once become one,” he said in an interview with the American television company CBS.

In 2019, a professor of electronic and computer engineering of the State University of Oklahoma Subhash, as he expressed doubts about the possibility of creating artificial intelligence, endowed with a consciousness inherent in man. He noted that human consciousness combines numerous cognitive functions that cannot be programmed using logical expressions.