LONDON, September 23. /TASS/. Humanity may lose effective control over artificial intelligence (AI) within five years, according to experts from UK-based Alan Turing Institute.

"There is a realistic possibility that ‘superintelligent’ AI systems will emerge in the next five years, which exceed human abilities across almost all important cognitive tasks," the report says.

The experts believe that as AI systems start to exceed human capabilities in strategically important areas, their speed and efficiency may create increasing pressure to delegate the decision-making process to them.

"If AI systems devise strategies that institutions cannot adequately evaluate and act faster than organisations can respond, substantive human control could disappear," the report reads.

At the same time, authors emphasize that this is "a possibility to plan against, not a prediction."

Sam Altman, the CEO of US company Open AI, which developed ChatGPT, recently acknowledged that creating AI that is beyond human control is possible. Shortly before this, the CEO of another major US tech corporation Anthropic, Dario Amodei, proposed that companies slow the pace of development for the most powerful AI models. Amodei believes that by slowing down work on advanced technologies in a coordinated manner, companies can buy "an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability."