On the Interaction of Human and Artificial Intelligence: a New Social Reality in the Minds of Moscow Students
The article is devoted to the study into the social aspects of the wide use of artificial intelligence technologies in various fields of a person's activity. Under the conditions of intensive development of artificial intelligence systems, the authors emphasize the timeliness of obtaining applied information about the modern people’s attitude to interaction with these technologies, which are gradually moving from the sphere of scientific discoveries to the real practice of life, at the same time acquiring the certainty of a social phenomenon in everyday communications. The presented materials of an empirical research carried out by the authors in 2019 allow some conclusions about the position of Moscow humanities students. The young people surveyed are well informed about breakthrough technologies, but show a mixed attitude to their active development in professional and everyday practices. The results of the factor analysis represent four ways of interaction between human and artificial intelligence, reflecting the orientation towards the expanded (“Intellectual Support of Man”) and limited (“Human Prerogative”) use of intelligent systems, or their use in the applied aspect (“Routine Operations”, “Applied Tasks”). Students’ optimistic views are connected, on the one hand, with their expectations of improvement of a person’s life, release from monotonous work, receiving help in daily issues and improvement of cognitive abilities of man. On the other hand, a part of the respondents is aware of a possible loss of autonomy of a social subject in the intellectual sphere of action.