United Kingdom, Dec. 20 -- Evidence is "far too limited" to determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) has developed a conscious.

According to Dr. Tom McClelland, a philosopher at the University of Cambridge, the growing claims about sentient machines are running well ahead of what science and philosophy can currently support.

In his view, the only defensible position on AI consciousness is agnosticism.

Dr. McClelland argued that the problem is not simply a lack of data about AI systems, but a much deeper gap in human understanding.

Scientists and philosophers still do not agree on what consciousness actually is, let alone how to measure it.

In the journal Mind and Language, he said: "The main problem is that we don't have a deep...