ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE REGULATORY CONTEXT OF INDUSTRY 4.0 AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL OPTIMISM

Numerous publications devoted to the digitalization of the economy have repeat-edly emphasized that artificial intelligence (AI) can rebuild the economy, ensure the growth of labor productivity, increase its efficiency, reduce costs, and is called upon to do so. Thousands of newspapers, books, and magazine pages contain the phrase “artificial intelligence.” Internet browsers respond to this inquiry with millions of links. Not only enthusiastic amateurs but quite serious scientists use the term. It appears or is implied both in rare talented, and in numerous ordinary games and animated films. It has already fallen into the content of existing legal acts. They of-ficially designate the object, the slightest delay in the creation of which is sometimes proclaimed disastrous for the most developed states. Russian legal science is on the verge of a large-scale study of the content and methods of regulating relations regarding categories of robotics, cyber-physical systems, electronic subjects, and others. The paper concludes whether robots with artificial intelligence are endowed with the attributes of a subject of law; whether artificial intelligence has its own will; whether any actions of artificial intelligence can indi-cate that it performs them in its own interest, and, finally, if artificial intelligence is an ontological gloom or epistemological optimism. © 2022 by Information Age Publishing All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.