CONSCIOUSNESS AND MIND OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TASKS, PROBLEMS AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS

Author(s): Suslov A.V., Seregin A.A.

Rubric: Methodological research

DOI: 10.21777/2500-2112-2024-4-104-112

Release: 2024-4 (49)

Pages: 104-112

Keywords: consciousness, artificial intelligence, neural networks, a priori knowledge, a posteriori knowledge, existential threats

Annotation: The article examines the epistemological, ethical, philosophical, cultural and ideological aspects of the develop- ment of artificial intelligence (AI). The work introduces readers to current trends in the development of artificial intelligence systems, as well as the authors’ position on the existential challenges and risks that this technology may pose for humanity. Based on the ideas of the classical rationalist tradition about the unity of a priori (pre- experimental) and a posteriori (experienced) types of knowledge, the authors correlate between the process of hu- man cognition and the functioning of artificial intelligence systems based on self-learning programs. This leads to the conclusion that it is fundamentally impossible for artificial intelligence to go beyond the limits of the originally laid algorithmic model (a priori knowledge) and acquire phenomenal consciousness. Reflecting on one of the most discussed issues (both in popular and scientific literature) about whether AI can surpass and even replace humans themselves, the authors emphasize the uniqueness of existential being and the impossibility of both humans and super-powered AI to solve the fundamental issues of human existence. The article demonstrates that ethical and anthropological issues and problems are based on the fundamental idea of having free will and therefore are not comparable to the problems of AI creating and functioning. The scientific novelty lies in the statement proposed by the authors, according to which in the modern era – the predominance of positivism, scientism and technocratism in the intellectual tradition – the future possibilities of artificial intelligence and related anthropological and so- cial expectations will inevitably remain in the area of algorithmized rational coordinates and, essentially, cannot be moved into the sphere of irrational existential issues. This is where the dialectic of the enormous possibilities and insurmountable limitations of the theory and practice of artificial intelligence finds its adequate expression.

Bibliography: Suslov A.V., Seregin A.A. CONSCIOUSNESS AND MIND OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TASKS, PROBLEMS AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS // Education Resources and Technologies. – 2024. – № 4 (49). – С. 104-112. doi: 10.21777/2500-2112-2024-4-104-112