India, Sept. 25 -- Seventy-five years after Alan Turing asked whether machines could think, artificial intelligence is forcing humanity to revisit the question of consciousness.

As AI systems become increasingly capable, concerns are growing over whether they could evolve beyond human control and pose an existential threat.

Experts remain divided on whether machines can ever become conscious, with some warning of a future "silicon species" while others argue that consciousness may depend on biological systems.

The debate raises a deeper question: are humans creating a new form of intelligence without fully understanding the consequences?

Can machines think?" Alan Turing, an English mathematician and logician asked in his 1950 essay, "...