Over 100 researchers have signed a letter to launch an alarm, they also published a study and five principles to avoid developing a sentient and running the risk of making it suffer.
I think, therefore I am, the philosopher wrote René Descartes. This sentence has influenced our conception of consciousness. But how a distinguishing is distinguished be sentient? We still don’t know today. The problem remains current, especially now that artificial intelligence models are able to imitate the human mindand for this they must be protected. A team of researchers and experts from IA have signed an open letter: “Many systems in a short time could become conscious and risk suffering”, reads. “The IA capable of feeling emotions risks being injured if technology is developed irresponsiblely”.
The letter was signed by beyond 100 expertsamong these too Anthony Finkelstein Professor of the University of London and artificial intelligence expert and the writer Stephen Fry. The researchers also proposed five principles To conduct responsible research on the awareness of artificial intelligence and protect the quick systems developments. “At the moment there is a widespread uncertainty and disagree with the definition of consciousness in artificial intelligence systems and on its possible existence, but it is a question that” we must not ignore “.
The principles listed in the researchers’s letter
Artificial intelligences conscious open ethical and moral issues. To avoid ” make sentient systems suffer“The researchers created five principles to follow:
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- Limits to the development of conscious artificial intelligence systems must be established
- A gradual approach to the development of these systems must be adopted
- It is necessary to share the results with the public
- We must refrain from making misleading or excessively safe statements on the creation of conscious artificial intelligence.
The risks of developing conscious artificial intelligence
Together with the open letter, a research document was also published, published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, conscious artificial intelligence systems could be developed in the near future. The study, written by Patrick Butlin of the University of Oxford e Theodoros Lappas of the University of Economics and Commerce of Athens, explains that guidelines are needed to avoid “unconscious creation of conscious entities“.
It is not the first alarm. Last year a group of academics already had fixed a date. “It is very likely that systems become aware By 2035“. Always in 2023 Demis hassabishead of the artificial intelligence program of Google and Nobel Prize, explained that even if at the moment the artificial intelligence systems are not sentient, they could become it in the future. “The philosophers have not yet found a precise definition of consciousness, but if we mean one sort of self -awarenessthis kind of thing, I think there is the possibility that one day artificial intelligence may be “, he explained in an interview with CBS.
Geoffrey Hinton himself, Nobel Prize christened godfather of artificial intelligence launched the alarm: “The technology is advancing faster than expected and we have never had to deal with something more intelligent than us. And how many examples do we know about something more intelligent that is controlled by something less intelligent?”
