Could AI be conscious?

Experts, including Anthropic's leadership and philosopher David Chalmers, believe that large language models (LLMs, AI systems trained on vast amounts of text data to generate responses) could potentially become conscious, and some say this might happen within a decade. Modern AI systems are growing rapidly in computational complexity, potentially reaching human brain-level complexity in 5-10 years, raising urgent ethical questions about whether we need to consider the wellbeing of AI systems themselves.