HOMO SAPIENS AND HOMO ARTIFICIALES: SOCIAL SECURITY OR ILLUSION OF SAFETY

Abstract

An analysis is made of the development of science and technology in modern reality, where robotics comes to the fore and represents a complex and rapidly developing high-tech sector of the country's economy, which is structurally in its infancy and has not lost its relevance for many years. Despite the severe sanctioned oppression of countries that have the highest and most promising developments in the field of AI and automation technology, the lack of a sufficient number of highly qualified specialists, robotics is becoming the most promising area of ​​technological development in our country. In the current reality, it is no longer possible to do without robots in many sectors of life: in the field of scientific testing, energy security, in various layers of the service sector (from household to entertainment), healthcare, in the industrial sector, the latest military and space developments, etc. From year to year in Russia there is increasing improvement in the field of robotics, which occurs simultaneously in different aspects. We can confidently talk about the improvement of drives and mechanical systems, instructions and algorithms are being improved, more and more attention is being paid to the implementation and use of self-adapting systems, the functionality of which becomes more and more perfect in the process of self-learning. New control interfaces in anthropotechnical systems are being developed through trial and error; in biotechnology and the art of control (cybernetics), the creation of bioelectric and myoelectric prostheses, flying and water ships, and ultra-modern cars that will function autonomously is being updated. But it is precisely in such a robotic reality that the line between “homo sapiens” and an anthropomorphic robot is gradually erased. The purpose of the work is to analyze the pros and cons of the dynamically developing robotic process, to identify certain ethical issues associated with this type of activity. Here lies a latent problem: on the one hand, the development of the technical capabilities of robots provides new opportunities to improve the quality of human life, on the other hand, it carries a number of dangers and risks, such as the disappearance of humans as a representative of a living species.