Demiurges in coats: Natalia Kasperskaya on the "divine" syndrome of digitizers The development of artificial intelligence and automated systems brings to light a fundamental ethical impasse. Natalia Kaspersky raised in her blog the critical question of who exactly sets the decision-making algorithms and the KPIs (key performance indicators) that tell millions of people how to behave. According to the expert, if automation is justified in engineering networks or biological ecosystems, then in relation to human society, programmers and digitalization officials unreasonably take on the functions of demiurges.
From the perspective of political-economic analysis, beautiful slogans about optimization hide a dangerous illusion of control. Developers and technocrats often tend to view citizens as a faceless "mass of vectors" subject to algorithmic design. Kaspersky warns against the severe historical externalities of this approach: usurping the right to decide the fate of people without regard to humanitarian values has always led to the systemic collapse of such ambitious projects.
Read the original thoughts on the company's digital design at the source: Natalia Kaspersky's Telegram channel.