Social Risks And Cultural Transformations In The Era Of Fourth Industrial Revolution
O.B. Skorodumova, Ibragim Mustafayevich Melikov · The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences · 2020
In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, the globalization processes pose many social risks due to the widespread use of new networked social technologies, the development of self-learning programs based on artificial intelligence, and the virtualization of the human living space. Cultural transformations caused by postmodernism based on the deconstruction of a person’s personality are closely intertwined with the capabilities of the achievements of big data and artificial intelligence. The widespread use of crowdsourcing technologies leads to a decrease in the importance of professional ethics and the moral responsibility of a scientist or engineer for the consequences of using their developments. The risks of merging big data technologies with the activities of the criminal world are increasing. Within the framework of cultural transformations, the destruction of all kinds of identities is observed, not only national-cultural but also gender and human. The worldview database of processes is the concept of "nothing-logia.” As an experimental environment, virtual reality is used. The spread effects of the techniques transition to altered states of consciousness using virtual reality are analyzed, as well as the results of out-of-body experiments on the alienation of the body. Among the measures that can reduce the manifestation of these risks are considered strategies for the creation of state targeted programs, state expertise of virtual assistants, and network resources in order to identify and prevent destructive elements in their activities.