Reimagining Industry 5.0: Centering People in a Digital World and Bridging Techno-Economic and Socio-Technical Futures

The article is devoted to the history of the development of ICT and AI, their current and expected future achievements, and the problems (which have already arisen but will become even more acute in the future) associated with the development of these technologies and their widespread application in society. It shows the close connection between the development of AI and cognitive science, the penetration of ICT and AI into various spheres, particularly health care, and the very intimate areas related to the creation of digital copies of the deceased and posthumous contact with them. A significant part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of ‘artificial intelligence’, including the definition of generative AI. The authors analyse recent achievements in the field of Artificial Intelligence. There are given descriptions of the basic models, in particular the Large Linguistic Models (LLM), and forecasts of the development of AI and the dangers that await us in the coming decades. The authors identify the forces behind the aspiration to create AI, which is increasingly approaching the capabilities of the so-called general/universal AI, and also suggest desirable measures to limit and channel the development of artificial intelligence. It is emphasized that the threats and dangers of the development of ICT and AI are particularly aggravated by the monopolization of their development by the state, intelligence services, major corporations and those often referred to as globalists. The article provides forecasts of the development of computers, ICT and AI in the coming decades, and also shows the changes in society that will be associated with them. The study consists of two articles. The first, published in the previous is-sue of the journal, has provided a brief historical overview and characterized the current situation in the field of ICT and AI. It has also analyzed the concepts of artificial intelligence, including generative AI, changes in the understanding of AI related to the emergence of the so-called large language models and related new types of AI programs (ChatGPT and similar models). The article has discussed the serious problems and dangers associated with the rapid and uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence. This second article describes and comments on the current assessments of breakthroughs in the field of AI, analyzes various predictions, and provides the authors' own assessments and predictions of future developments. Particular attention is paid to the problems and dangers associated with the rapid and uncontrolled development of AI, with the fact that advances in this field become a powerful means of control over the population, imposing ideologies, priorities and lifestyles, influencing the results of elections, and a tool to undermine security and geopolitical struggles.

The article is devoted to the history of the development of ICT and AI, their current and expected future achievements, and the problems (which have already arisen but will become even more acute in the future) assiciated with the development of these technologies and their widespread application in society. It shows the close connection between the development of AI and cognitive science, the penetration of ICT and AI into various spheres, particularly health care, and the very intimate areas related to the creation of digital copies of the deceased and posthumous contact with them. A significant part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of “artificial intelligence”, including the definition of generative AI. The authors analyse recent achievements in the field of Artificial Intelligence. There are given descriptions of the basic models, in particular the Large Linguistic Models (LLM), and forecasts of the development of AI and the dangers that await us in the coming decades. The authors identify the forces behind the aspiration to create AI, which is increasingly approaching the capabilities of the so-called general/universal AI, and also suggest desirable measures to limit and channel the development of artificial intelligence. It is emphasized that the threats and dangers of the development of ICT and AI are particularly aggravated by the monopolization of their development by the state, intelligence services, major corporations and those often referred to as globalists. The article provides forecasts of the development of computers, ICT and AI in the coming decades, and also shows the changes in society that will be associated with them. The study consists of two articles. The first, published in the previous issue of the journal, provided a brief historical overview and characterized the current situation in the field of ICT and AI. It also analyzed the concepts of artificial intelligence, including generative AI, changes in the understanding of AI in connection with the emergence of the so-called large language models and related new types of AI programs (ChatGPT and similar models). The article discussed the serious problems and dangers associated with the rapid and uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence. This second article describes and comments on current assessments of breakthroughs in the field of AI, analyzes various predictions, and provides the authors’ own assessments and predictions of future developments. Particular attention is paid to the problems and dangers associated with the rapid and uncontrolled development of AI, with the fact that advances in this field are becoming a powerful means of control over the population, imposing ideology, priorities and lifestyles, influencing the results of elections, and a tool to undermine security and geopolitical struggles.

This research looks at the potential effects of generative artificial intelligence AI on the country's media landscape. Given their pervasiveness, it aims to reveal how AI-powered technologies in media content creation, distribution, and personalisation contribute to the overall process of national progress. Using well-designed questionnaires, the study quantitatively collects data from media professionals, techies, and communication scholars in large cities throughout China. Using statistical tools such as structural equation modelling and regression analysis, one investigated the interplay between the rate of modernisation, the effects of national development, and AI-driven media innovation. Media indices of generative AI demonstrate a clear positive correlation with the effect of modernism and national development programs. As China strives to digitally change its communication infrastructure and increase its cultural influence, technological prowess, and media production, generative AI is playing an increasingly crucial role. This study shows that AI in media may lead to more dynamic stories, practical audience participation, and worldwide outreach, all thanks to modernist techniques. There is no part of this that does not contribute to the advancement of national development goals. The results provide policymakers, media outlets, and AI developers with valuable information for formulating strategies to integrate AI with sustainable development objectives. Via an experimental interaction between generative AI and national development perceived via a modernist lens, this study provides a framework for future research on new media technologies and national change. The discussion of the societal potential presented by AI may now begin.

Generative AI is transforming policy customization and fraud detection. Cybersecurity insurance can be both a boon and a bane as the existing models for underwriting and assessment are relatively static in a world which is witnessing a constant escalation between attack and defense mechanisms. By assessing huge datasets, spotting emerging pattern and predicting potential vulnerabilities in real time, generative AI introduces dynamic risk modeling. Help insurers design hyper-personalized cyber insurance products that are tailored to specific business profiles, operational risks and exposure levels to enhance coverage and premium accuracy. Generative AI helps in anomaly detection and identifying suspicious behaviour in insurance claims in fraud detection domain. Using legitimate claims scenarios to train AI model, fraud detection models can detect anomalies and fraud as never before. The intersection of expertise in cybersecurity, AI development and insurance will be key to creating strong, flexible and transparent insurance structures that can respond to the intricacies of today's cyber threats.

In an exciting series of Interdisciplinary Dialogues on the societal impacts of AI, we invite a guest speaker and panellists from the fields of science and engineering, health and humanities and social sciences to discuss the advances, challenges and opportunities raised by AI. The first dialogue in this series began with Yoshua Bengio, who, concerned about developments in generative AI and the major risks they pose for society, initiated the organization of a conference on the subject. The event took place on August 14, 2023 in Montreal, and was aimed at initiating collective, interdisciplinary reflection on the issues and risks posed by recent developments in AI. The conference took the form of a panel, moderated by Juliette Powell, to which seven specialists were invited who cover a variety of disciplines, including: computer science (Yoshua Bengio and Golnoosh Farnadi), law (Caroline Lequesne and Claire Boine), philosophy (Jocelyn Maclure), communication (Sonja Solomun) and political science (Hugo Loiseau). This document is the result of this first interdisciplinary dialogue on the societal impacts of AI. The speakers were invited to respond concisely, in the language of their choice, to questions raised during the event. Immerse yourself in reading these fascinating conversations, presented in a Q&A format that transcends disciplinary boundaries. The aim of these dialogues is to offer a critical and diverse perspective on the impact of AI on our everchanging world.

“What all of us have to do is to make sure we are using AI in a way that is for the benefit of humanity, not to the detriment of humanity” (Tim Cook)As we stride deeper into the digital era of 21st century, where algorithms learn faster than we teach, and machines outperform humans in nearly all fields of life including diagnostics, academics, and even creativity, the essence of being human is undergoing redefinition.1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undeniably revolutionized virtually every aspect of our lives including healthcare, academia, finance and governance. However, as AI's reach extends, a paradox emerges: the more intelligent our machines become, the more significance our human-centered skills hold. In this era of exponential technological growth, soft skills; particularly empathy, emotional intelligence, adaptability, communication, and ethical reasoning have become essential.2 Soft skills more aptly described as “power skills," are typically defined as personal characteristics and emotional competencies that help individuals efficiently regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. In general terms, soft skills are the personality characteristics, attitudes, and social abilities that are intangible and more closely correlated with character characteristics and social skills than they are with technical proficiency.3 These include communication, creativity, emotional intelligence, and adaptability—skills that are becoming increasingly important in today's healthcare settings. Professionals that can successfully incorporate AI and cognitive technologies with human methods will be the most successful by 2030. AI will improve human capabilities rather than replace them. According to the World Economic Forum, by 2025, more than half of workers will require retraining, with an emphasis on soft skills to support technology improvements.4 AI excels at hard skills and automating mundane, time-consuming tasks but it falls short in areas like creativity, empathy, and human judgment. This is exactly where the very core behavioral skills come in, filling the gap and bringing human qualities that are essential for innovation and collaboration. Moreover, competencies like critical thinking facilitate the interpretation of results produced by AI and transform them into strategic decisions. Some essential soft skills for the era of AI include:

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Healthcare professionals operate in complex and rapidly changing environments, where quality of care depends not only on clinical expertise but also on soft skills such as empathy, communication, teamwork, emotional regulation, and adaptive decision-making. Yet soft skills are often treated as professional ideals, and less is known about how healthcare professionals understand and enact them under routine organizational constraints. This qualitative study examined how professionals define, interpret, and experience soft skills in everyday work within a complex and rapidly changing healthcare context. By moving beyond normative accounts of soft skills, the study seeks to clarify how these competencies are experienced as context-dependent practices embedded within organizational realities. Based on 37 in-depth semi-structured online interviews conducted between 2023 and 2024 with healthcare professionals working in large public hospitals and health maintenance organizations, including physicians, nurses, and healthcare providers. Data were analyzed inductively using thematic analysis. Five interrelated themes were identified: (1) Soft Skills as a Shared Professional Ideal (2) Time and Workload Pressure (3) Emotional Strain and the Gradual Erosion of Soft Skills (4) Soft Skills as Developable Capacities Within Supportive Organizational Environments; and (5) Navigating Change and Digital Transformation in a VUCA Healthcare Environment. The findings reveal a persistent gap between the normative framing of soft skills and their conditional enactment in practice, shaped by workload intensity, emotional strain, and systemic pressures. Overall, soft skills emerged as essential yet fragile professional resources whose enactment is contingent on time, emotional capacity, and organizational support. The study contributes theoretically by conceptualizing soft skills not as stable individual attributes, but as situated professional practices mediated by organizational conditions and systemic change. The findings suggest that strengthening soft skills requires closer alignment between educational preparation and workplace realities through longitudinal development, structured practice opportunities, and organizational cultures that recognize and protect relational work as a core component of healthcare practice. Not applicable.

In an increasingly interconnected and digital world, fortifying national security transcends traditional borders and military strategies. This publication, "Fortifying National Security: The Integration of Advanced Financial Control and Cybersecurity Measures," explores the critical intersection of advanced financial control and cybersecurity as essential components in enhancing national security frameworks. Advanced financial control employs sophisticated methodologies and technologies to protect national financial systems from fraud, money laundering, and illicit financial activities. Concurrently, cybersecurity measures are crucial in defending critical infrastructure and governmental networks from cyber threats, including state-sponsored espionage and disruptive ransomware attacks. Through detailed analysis and case studies, this publication examines the impact of financial breaches and cyber incidents on national security, highlighting the interconnectedness and synergies between advanced financial control and cybersecurity. It underscores the necessity for integrated approaches to enhance resilience against evolving threats in the economic and cyber domains. By addressing challenges and highlighting collaborative strategies, this publication aims to provide actionable insights for policymakers, stakeholders, and practitioners dedicated to strengthening national security through proactive and integrated financial and cybersecurity measures. In the contemporary landscape of rapidly evolving technological advancements and the increasing prevalence of cyber threats, organizations face a critical imperative to align their accounting practices with robust cybersecurity measures. This review explores the symbiotic relationship between accounting and cybersecurity in safeguarding data confidentiality and ensuring financial security. It focuses on the strategic alignment required to protect organizations against escalating cyber threats targeting sensitive financial information. The review begins by exploring the intricate connection between accounting processes and the protection of financial data, emphasizing the pivotal role of accurate financial reporting and transparent disclosure in maintaining stakeholder trust. It then scrutinizes the evolving threat landscape, identifying cyber risks specifically targeting financial systems and data. The analysis underscores the need for a comprehensive strategic approach integrating accounting practices with cybersecurity protocols to effectively mitigate these risks. Furthermore, the review investigates contemporary tools and technologies that facilitate the integration of accounting and cybersecurity, enhancing organizations' ability to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats. It examines the adoption of advanced encryption methods, intrusion detection systems, and AI-driven analytics to bolster data confidentiality and financial security. By analyzing case studies and best practices, this review highlights successful instances of organizations aligning accounting and cybersecurity strategies to achieve a cohesive defense against financial cyber threats. Lessons learned from these cases offer valuable insights for practitioners and decision-makers seeking to implement effective measures within their own organizational contexts. Ultimately, this review contributes to the evolving discourse on strategic alignment by emphasizing the imperative of synergizing accounting practices with cybersecurity initiatives. As organizations navigate an increasingly complex and interconnected business environment, a holistic approach that unifies financial integrity and cyber resilience becomes paramount for ensuring sustained success and safeguarding against the multifaceted challenges of the digital age.

The growing dependence of modern society on digital technologies leads to an increase in cyber threats, which makes the issue of cyber security particularly relevant. The problem of the research is to determine the effective mechanisms of protection of information systems in the conditions of globalization and growing geopolitical challenges. The purpose of the article is to analyze the development of international data privacy standards, the role of the latest technologies in cyberspace protection, and the formation of an effective global network strategy. Special attention is paid to the directions of international cooperation in the development of technological innovations and the training of qualified personnel. The article examines the legal, technological and educational aspects of data security policy, analyzes the experience and practices of different countries, which allows determining effective directions for improving the effectiveness of protection against cyber threats. Based on the conducted research, the main challenges and prospects for the development of the global defense system were determined, including the need to integrate efforts at the international level and integrate into the rapidly changing conditions of cyberspace. The results emphasize the importance of creating a unified global network protection system that ensures the protection of relevant information resources and the privacy of personal data in the digital world. Outlined recommendations for the effective integration of countermeasures into national and international strategies can serve as a factor in ensuring a secure digital future and building an appropriate infrastructure. The results of the article highlight the critical role of global cyber security in ensuring stability and security in today’s digital world, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach to its implementation.

Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies are gaining visibility and support. Decision-makers are defending the extension of large infrastructures that are low greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, as a way to act quickly and massively without calling into question existing economic models. This situation depoliticizes these projects, masking their other ecological consequences such as their impacts on biodiversity. This article examines how promoters of these projects depoliticized its socio-technical futures while other actors re-politicized them. Using the example of the Seine Nord Europe Canal project, we show a politicization of the territorial future and a depoliticization of the environmental future. This depoliticization is based on the techno-optimist discourse promoting large-scale infrastructures as the only possible solution to the global ecological and climate crisis. It uses a selective framing of the environment that makes some elements visible and others invisible. We conducted semi-structured interviews with biodiversity stakeholders in the territories that would be impacted by the canal. Based on the concepts of environmental forms and motives, we reconstructed the environmental ontologies ignored by the dominant discourse and assembled them into three alternative scenarios. We present the method of investigation and identification of these motives and discuss the likelihood of the constructed scenarios participating in a re-politicization based on the reactions of various actors.

In today’s digital world, information is a key resource, and its protection is an extremely important task in our time. Cyber security is becoming more and more important for organizations, governments and people. Cyber threats are evolving, traditional protection methods may not be sufficient to ensure a high level of security, so it is necessary to develop effective approaches to information protection. The response to challenges is concentrated in a complex protection system, it becomes an important strategy for ensuring the stability and reliability of information resources and networks.The article highlights some of the challenges and opportunities facing modern information security, and also considers the role of a comprehensive defense system in countering cyber threats. Among the challenges, we can highlight the rapid pace of technology development, which requires constant updating of protective strategies. In addition, the increasing number of cyber attacks and their complexity are forcing organizations to rethink their approaches to cyber security. Another challenge is ensuring security in global networks, where information moves through different territories with different rules and laws.On the other hand, complex information protection systems open up new opportunities for effective fight against cyber threats. They combine various protection methods and technologies. This approach reduces the risk of successful cyber attacks. In addition, complex information protection systems can use artificial intelligence and data analysis to automatically detect anomalies and threats in real time. This allows you to quickly react to new threats and attacks, ensuring a high level of security.The importance of implementing comprehensive protection systems that take into account the variety of cyber threats and ensure reliable and sustainable protection of information resources in the future will become more important every day. This approach will help ensure the security of networks, reduce the risk of successful cyber attacks and ensure the security and confidentiality of information in today’s digital world.In general, complex information protection systems are becoming an integral part of modern information security. They help organizations ensure reliable protection of their valuable data and information resources, which is critical to their operations and success. However, in order to achieve maximum effectiveness, it is important to constantly update and improve such systems, taking into account new technological discoveries and growing cyber security threats.

The chapter describes the problem of building cyber threats resilience for the human factor as the technological growth is constantly changing the security landscape of the new digital world. A methodological framework for meeting the problem by using the “scenario method” and experts' support is outlined. An implementation of comprehensive morphological and system analyses of cyber threats are performed, followed by agent based mixed reality validation, incorporating biometrics monitoring. The obtained results demonstrate a correlation of experts' beliefs for cyber threats identification, related to human factor biometric response, whilst using social networks and inhabiting smart environments of living. The achieved results prove “use with care” necessity for new technologies, concerning cyber threats landscape for assuring a sustainable resilience balance from the human factor perspective.

Technology is advancing at a very high speed, becoming more sophisticated and complex. Similarly, due to the vastness of the digital world, cyber threats have also increased in complexity and frequency. The rapid advancement of technology has brought unprecedented conveniences but also significant risks. Therefore, security awareness is essential for every individual and organization. Cyber threats such as phishing attacks, malware attacks, social engineering, Denial of service attacks, and insider threats have become sophisticated, proving to be a challenge to individuals and organizations. This paper evaluates security awareness in the organization with a keen interest in why the program is essential, the components of the program, challenges that might be faced while implementing the program, and what role the organization and employees have to play to ensure the environment is secure. The paper provides a comprehensive analysis highlighting the importance of security awareness in an organization's current sophisticated digital world. Keywords - Security Awareness, Cyber Threats, Phishing, Malware, Social Engineering, Information Security, Cybersecurity Training, Risk Mitigation, and Continuous Education.

The chapter describes the problem of building cyber threats resilience for the human factor as the technological growth is constantly changing the security landscape of the new digital world. A methodological framework for meeting the problem by using the “scenario method” and experts' support is outlined. An implementation of comprehensive morphological and system analyses of cyber threats are performed, followed by agent based mixed reality validation, incorporating biometrics monitoring. The obtained results demonstrate a correlation of experts' beliefs for cyber threats identification, related to human factor biometric response, whilst using social networks and inhabiting smart environments of living. The achieved results prove “use with care” necessity for new technologies, concerning cyber threats landscape for assuring a sustainable resilience balance from the human factor perspective.