Digital Versatile: How AI is Changing the World and Social Connections

This article analyzes the phenomenon of "digital ersatz"—a process in which artificial intelligence ceases to be a mere tool and becomes a substitute for authentic interpersonal relationships. The author points to the mechanism of anthropological compensation, where technology fills the gaps left by weakening social institutions such as family and school. The text addresses critical issues of automatic authority, asymmetry in linguistic models, and clinical threats, including AI-associated psychosis. It also points to the need to preserve computational sovereignty and human-centric education in the face of advancing cognitive automation. This is a call to protect human autonomy from algorithmic persuasion, which is redefining the foundations of contemporary civilization and political order.