Anti-utopias as “self-fulfilling prophecies” about the use of AI in information warfare

The article defines and demonstrates the predictive potential of literary anti-utopias as “self-fulfilling prophecies” describing certain aspects of artificial intelligence technologies and the risks of their application in the context of one of the key threats of technological development of digital society accompanying the global crisis – fifth-generation information warfare. For the first time the texts of literary anti-utopias are scientifically actualised and socio-philosophically and discursively analysed to identify the risks of AI application in modern information warfare. Two groups of risks related to the development of artificial intelligence technologies, in general, and their application in the sphere of information warfare are presented and described from the perpective of modern information warfare. The author concludes that most of the risks described in anti-utopias have come true or are currently coming true, thus demonstrating that the potential of literary anti-utopias is that they not only identify risks, but also, as “self-fulfilling prophecies”, represent possible and realised consequences of the technological development of digital society. Accordingly, they fulfil a prognostic and preventive function. The results of this article can be used to develop appropriate measures in the socio-political sphere, as well as to inform the public about the threats of modern information warfare, including the application of artificial intelligence technologies in this sphere.