Socio-Cultural Risks of the Digital Age

Annotation

The article provides a philosophical analysis of the socio-cultural risks of the digital age. The author substantiates the importance of analyzing socio-cultural risks in connection with the crisis of the American project of globalization, the formation of a multipolar world and the self-determination of Russia as a state-civilization. In the context of intense information wars, there is an active struggle for dominance in the humanitarian sphere, which is crucial in shaping the worldview of citizens. The manipulative capabilities of network platforms are analyzed. The possibility of a holistic influence on a person is shown, not only on a rational level, but also on an imaginative and emotional one. A particular danger is the ability of network platforms to develop algorithms for behavior and the production of recommendations that defy human logic. In this regard, there is an urgent problem of special control over the functioning of network platforms and decision-making to limit the development of fifth-generation GPT neural networks and higher. Trends in the development of artificial intelligence are considered in the context of the analysis of socio-cultural risks. The features of the psychological perception of robots by humans and their needs for the production of creatures like themselves are considered. The cultural origins of the creation of an artificial human Golem in the cultures of the world and the philosophical analysis of the social and cultural consequences of such reproduction of a human are analyzed. The arguments about the fundamental uniqueness of man, the importance of his spiritual essence and the fundamental impossibility of reproducing it are considered. The author substantiates the illegality of the criterion of marginal efficiency, the absolutization of which leads to the opposition of computers and humans. The trends in the development of artificial intelligence and the sociocultural risks generated by them are investigated. Particular attention is paid to the potential risks associated with the development of fourth- and potentially fifth-generation GPT neural networks. The approaches to criteria of reasonableness and prospects of creation of artificial intelligence are analyzed. It is shown that Homo sapiens is dehumanized and its uniqueness is ignored. An alternative approach is the position of the majority of Russian researchers, who substantiate the fundamental uniqueness of human spirituality and its irreproducibility.

Contribution of the authors

Khrapov S. A. – development of a general research methodology, disclosure of the cognitive aspect of the problem of artificial intelligence; Skorodumova O. B. – development of philosophical and anthropological research methodology, disclosure of socio-cultural aspect (risks) of artificial intelligence.

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