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International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2023
рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa

potential and the speed of development of AI-based consciousness, is not capable of harming humanity.
information technologies are so great that we may have However, the real dangers, which are becoming
to concede this primacy in the near future. increasingly apparent, should not be ignored.
It has been less than a year (30 November 2022) since the In a metaphorical sense, AI can be compared to the fuel
launch of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an AI-based or electricity needed to run a machine. The advent of a
conversational Large Language Model (LLM). The new fuel (petrol) made it possible for the internal
potential applications of LLMs in research and practice combustion engine to function. Automobiles appeared,
look promising, given their ability to generate creative aeroplanes... Even today, many people still measure the
responses. power of a car’s engine in horsepower. Nowadays, hardly
In the first 3 months of its existence, ChatGPT has anyone has to do their travel planning with horses in
become an indispensable tool for 100 million people mind. But this does not mean that horses have become
worldwide. A large number of people of different ages useless and can be disparaged as unnecessary or
and social statuses, from schoolchildren to university inefficient.
professors, have found ChatGPT to be an indispensable It is still directly human beings who decide how to use
tool for dealing with issues in their personal and and interact with new scientific advances. A human can
professional lives. refuel the drone and send it on a research mission to
This popularity makes ChatGPT an obvious positive another planet, or send it to destroy the inhabitants of a
answer to the question of whether AI has become our neighbouring country. A clear example is the russian
assistant. We are sure that there will be millions of federation’s military action in Ukraine. In this case,
schoolchildren and students who actively use ChatGPT drones with integrated warheads are actively deployed in
for their studies and for solving tasks assigned to them in large numbers, capable of making a long flight over the
educational institutions. At the same time, it is very likely battlefield, independently detecting a target, classifying
that millions of teachers and university professors are its level of importance among others, and making a
also using AI to prepare assignments for these students. decision to destroy it.
This creates a paradoxical situation in which the AI Despite the negative trends and realities we live in today,
becomes both the object and the subject of action (writing there is still hope that humanity is able to understand the
and solving its own tasks). responsibility of using AI and can channel it to advance
The other question is whether this is a problem or not. As our civilisation, science and culture.
in the first case, we believe that the answer to this Therefore, the issue of creating a harmonious relationship
question will be in the affirmative. Undoubtedly, between humans and AI is very important. These
replacing one’s own opinion and efforts in solving tasks relationships can be both personal and professional. In
with an AI answer will have a negative impact on this case, personal relationships, such as the role and the
students’ personal cognitive sphere (intelligence) and level, are determined by each person for him or herself;
competence level. professional relationships can be regulated from the
To be fair, we should point out that this is a problem for outside and have serious consequences for the human.
the faculty as well. Over the past year, there has been a We share the views of researchers who claim that the use
significant increase in the number of research studies, of AI will be the reason for the reduction of large
and therefore articles, using AI-based tools. Previous numbers of workers in various fields in the coming years.
studies have addressed the legitimacy of using AI in It can cause various social conflicts.
scientific research and publications (Melnyk & Pypenko, It is therefore crucial to regulate these relationships in a
2023), and the dilemma of quality versus quantity of legal and regulatory context.
scientific publications, which will become particularly We think this is difficult to achieve, but it is certainly
relevant with the advent of AI (Melnyk & Pypenko, possible. The challenge is that AI is becoming
2021). Discussions about the tendency to replace humans increasingly pervasive in people’s daily lives and
with AI, and the potential threats associated with this, workspace. Therefore, something more sophisticated
have been ongoing since the term was introduced by than Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics must be
McCarthy (1959) in the middle of the last century. These developed to manage this complex system of human-AI
issues certainly deserve attention. In most cases, they relationships (Asimov, 1942).
remained theoretical views of the problem. However, the We believe that in the near future, countries with high
situation has changed dramatically over the past year. levels of economic growth will develop, ratify and
That is why we are focusing on the above axiom about implement laws that regulate the norms of interaction and
the irreversible penetration of AI into our life activities relationships between humans and AI.
and the subsequent increase in its influence on all Today, thanks to the activities of COPE (2023) and major
spheres. As a consequence of this trend, the need to build scientific publishers (WAME, JAMA), standards and
a real system of harmonious interaction and relationship rules have been developed for the use of AI-based
between humans and AI becomes obvious. Chatbots in scientific publications.
This problem is likely to be a key issue for this century, The first steps towards legitimising AI-based Chatbots
as the survival of humanity literally depends on it. were taken by Melnyk and Pypenko (2022). These
We are not inclined to dramatise the situation about the scientists have created and implemented the AIC AI
increasing danger to humanity from the development of Chatbots information technology platform (AIC AI
AI. We believe that AI, in the absence of individual Chatbots, 2023), which provides technological solutions

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