Ethical Implications and Social Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Development Towards Artificial General Intelligence

This paper explains the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) development towards achieving the level of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and analyzes the need for its social control. With the acceleration and intensification of AI growth and development, especially with the ongoing AI race, the transition from narrow AI to AGI becomes certain. The achievement of generative AI, which climaxes with chatbots (such as ChatGPT and others), transforms AI into a machine capable of creation. Although this AI application still appears relatively limited by algorithms, its learning ability is remarkable, and continuous advancements and the launch of increasingly sophisticated versions bring it ever closer to the AGI model. Each day brings us closer to that moment, which will signify AI’s transition from narrow AI to AGI. Unlike narrow AI, AGI deeply delves into the realm of ethics, and interpersonal and social relationships. Regulating AI-related policy and legally controlling AI represents one of the most serious and complex issues. In recent years, the community, led by corporate executives developing AI, prominent experts, researchers, scientists, writers, and other stakeholders, has made significant steps towards raising public awareness of the risks posed by advanced AI and making decisions, initiatives, and measures for monitoring, analyzing, and socially controlling the use of AI.