The Artificial State: Administration or Automatocracy?

The article analyzes the phenomenon of the Artificial State as a subtle systemic transformation in which the cognitive functions of institutions are replaced by optimization and prediction systems. The author rejects extreme technological triumphalism and catastrophism, pointing out that the key problem is not machine intelligence itself, but the anthropological reduction of the citizen to a data record. This process leads to the creation of an automatocracy—a system in which humans remain formally present but lose their role as the normative authors of decisions. The text warns against granting algorithmic representations ontological status and against the mechanism of self-fulfilling prophecies, where model predictions shape social reality and limit individual freedom through covert profiling.