Artificial Intelligence and Society: Pros and Cons of the Present, Future Prospects
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https://doi.org/10.57125/FP.2022.06.30.05Keywords:
artificial intelligence, new rationality, axiological dimensions of technologization, innovativeness, philosophy of science, philosophy of technology, scientific and technological picture of the worldAbstract
Aims: The purpose of this scientific research is to provide a philosophical interpretation of the positive and negative characteristics of artificial intelligence that have been formed in the scientific and cultural discourse. It is noted that the research objectives are not focused on the usual analysis to determine the pros and cons of artificial intelligence potential. The philosophical interpretation of the status of artificial intelligence is to look for its negative aspects in the advantages and positive aspects in the disadvantages of this potentially global sociocultural phenomenon. Methodology: The study used general scientific, cultural, and philosophical methods. An obvious feature was the philosophical and methodological principle of reversal - the reverse (and in some cases, inverse proportional) interaction between traditional intellectual research activity and innovative artificial intelligence. Results: According to the results of the study, a format for assessing the advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence through the prism of dialectical opposition and synergistic interaction is proposed. The model of scientific and philosophical analysis of artificial intelligence is formed by axiological, epistemological, methodological, and ontological characteristics. Scientific Novelty: A promising area of research is the correlation of artificial intelligence tools with innovative social concepts of the new humanistic paradigm. In the modern scientific picture of the world, the status of artificial intelligence is at the stage of worldview verification, so the prospects of this innovation are possible only if it is recognised at the level of public consciousness. Conclusion: Philosophy is called upon to form the value, scientific, cognitive, methodological (and in the future, existential) dimensions of artificial intelligence in the human-dimensional worldview paradigm. The process of forming these constants is possible only if the pros and cons of artificial intelligence in the system of social and individual activity and consciousness are interpreted holistically.
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