INTELLIGENCE AND POWER AS SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP FACTORS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: PRESENT DISCUSSIONS
The review of the new book by the famous philosophers of science Alexandr P. Alekseev and Irina Yu. Alekseeva “ The Fate of Intelligence and the Mission of Reason: Philosophy Facing the Challenges of the Digitalization Era ” (Moscow, 2021) includes the analysis of several generalizations and conclusions noteworthy from the viewpoint of modern understanding of scientific leadership in the knowledge society. The review notes that the book focuses on the concept of intelligence, which is understood by its authors as the value of human life, which requires protection against the dangers of the digital environment. An important place in the book is occupied by a historical and philosophical overview of the research of artificial intelligence, systematizing the developments of Russian scientists of the first half and middle of the 20th century, such as S. Korsakov, D. Pospelov and V. Pushkin, A. Lyapunov, S. Yanovskaya, as well as philosophers A. Bogdanov, L. Bazhenov, and E. Ilyenkov. The review emphasizes the modern philosophical understanding of the reason and its correlation with the intellect in the conditions of its technologization. The authors of the review conclude that through the problem of intellectual sovereignty of modern society, formulated in the book, it is possible to analyze the interaction between science and government in the context of new challenges of digitalization: when the government uses technology as an evaluation criterion for any activity, for example, scientific, and when the development of the technologies themselves have the power to determine the future of entire industries in many ways.