Abstract

 The problematics of artificial intelligence (AI) have become a topical
subject in scientific and socio-political discourse, as well as in everyday practice. The rapid
pace of digitalization and the widespread adoption of AI are fundamentally transforming
societies, economies, and individual lives. The paradigm of AI is being shaped within
an interdisciplinary scientific discourse, which unfolds not only in the technological but
also in the socio-humanitarian dimensions. The integration of digital technologies into
all spheres of social life generates a wide range of issues in socio-cultural, economic,
political, psychological, ecological, legal, and ethical aspects. At the personal level, AI
technologies provide comfortable living conditions while simultaneously creating human
dependence on digital reality, which can significantly influence individual identity.
Alongside unprecedented opportunities, the digital transformation of society also brings
about challenges and risks that require thorough analysis and the development and
implementation of practical algorithms at the state level. Based on discourse analysis
of scientific and official sources, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to interpreting
sociological measurements of digitalization in Kazakhstan, the article presents relevant
contexts for the formation of the national AI paradigm.
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI), information and communication technologies
(ICT), Kazakhstan, modernization, risks, digital society