In the latest W.E. Talk with China News Service, Xu Feng, deputy director of the United Front Theory Department at the Central Institute of Socialism, said that the answer to the question of whether there will be an emergence of autonomous consciousness as a result of AI's autonomous learning is still controversial, and the standards and criteria for examining it are varied.

调教办公室近日，中央社院统战理论教研部副主任徐锋在中新社“东西问·中外对话”中表示，对于人工智能是否可能因为自主学习而涌现出自我意识，该问题的答案存在争议，考察的标准、尺度也众说纷纭。总体来看，人类还是有很大概率能够尽可能地控制人工智能为己所用、使之不迅速趋于完全异己和异化的方向。

In his opinion, there is still a high probability that humankind will be able to control AI as much as possible and make it work for humankind and will not rapidly go in the direction of alienation and dissimulation.