ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS ARTIFICIAL DEMENTIA

The death of the Queen of Great Britain was announced by media on September 8, 2022. Elizabeth II deceased at the age of 96 in her beloved castle in Scotland. More than 70 years of reign made her the longest-reigning and oldest head of state in the world. If a user interested in the life of the Queen spends several hours or days requesting relevant information, s/he is guaranteed a desegmented “filter bubble”. Artificial intelligence, tracking the topics of requests, will narrow the range of issues provided to the limit, thereby cutting off information that is more pressing, large-scale or diversified. Or at least it might be some other important semantic field of today; for example, slowing down of YouTube. This capsule of debilitated reality created by artificial intelligence has become not just a technical miscalculation or psychological inconvenience, but a philosophical problem. The “filter bubble” condemns the user to the epistemological loneliness of a person locked in a circle of the same cognitive interests selected by the algorithms of social networks; such epic loneliness can develop into a moral and psychological one. It may develop political inadequacy and neuroses if, by accident or intentionally - it is not very significant here - the person once showed a pronounced attention to wars, epidemics, catastrophes, conspiracy theories, etc. In this case, we are talking about the loss of critical thinking.