Philosophical consideration of social risks of intellectual automation of social management

Natalia G. Mirono­va
Bashkir State Uni­ver­si­ty

Philo­soph­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tion of social risks of intel­lec­tu­al automa­tion of social man­age­ment

Abstract. The dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion of process­es and con­trol sys­tems in the last decade has been accom­pa­nied by the intro­duc­tion of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence tech­nolo­gies. The pur­pose of this study is to inves­ti­gate the con­di­tions for the safe use of intel­li­gent tech­nolo­gies and tools for man­ag­ing social infra­struc­ture. The research method­ol­o­gy bases on an inte­grat­ed approach, com­par­a­tive analy­sis, and log­i­cal syn­the­sis. The author sug­gests a philo­soph­i­cal analy­sis of exis­ten­tial risks of intel­lec­tu­al automa­tion of social man­age­ment and the mech­a­nisms of their imple­men­ta­tion, and also inves­ti­gates the con­di­tions for a safer use of tech­nolo­gies for intel­li­gent automa­tion of social­ly sig­nif­i­cant deci­sions. Gen­er­al­ized mea­sures and search direc­tions are pro­posed to reduce a num­ber of risks asso­ci­at­ed with intel­li­gent automa­tion of con­trol.

Key­words: philo­soph­i­cal prob­lems of knowl­edge engi­neer­ing, intel­li­gent mod­els, deci­sion sup­port sys­tems, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, risks

DOI: 10.32326/2618–9267–2021–4–2–125–144

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