Author:
Sergey D. Bodrunov
S. Y. Witte Institute of Noonomy and New Industrial Development (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Abstract:
We consider artificial intelligence as one of the most powerful technological factors of the cognitive-industrial revolution, which accelerates the increase in the knowledge intensity of production while concurrently intensifying the question regarding the goals of the societal application of this new technological power. In our studies, we note that AI, as an element of the technosphere, does not possess independent historical agency; the direction of its application is determined by social relations, the nature of property ownership, and value priorities. The distinction between algorithmic rationality and noorationality allows us to identify a civilizational crossroads: digital power is capable of leading both to technocratic dominance, cognitive inequality, and informational alienation, and to the expansion of creative space, the free exchange of knowledge, and solidarity-based creation. We link the resolution of these contradictions to the resultant force of the “quadriga of noonomy” – scientific and technological progress, the diffusion of property ownership, the socialization of society, and solidarism – whose joint action is aimed at subordinating technological power to human development. The movement toward noonomy presupposes conscious strategizing for the development of AI in the name of peace, the preservation of human control, and the limitation of the autonomization of military systems. The cognitive-industrial revolution becomes a factor of the nootransition only when knowledge turns into a public good, liberated time transforms into a space for creative self-realization, and the human being retains the status of the highest value and the subject of societal development.
Keywords: noonomy, nootransition, artificial intelligence, cognitive-industrial revolution, NIS.2, noorationality, quadriga of noonomy, solidarism, human dignity
For citation: Bodrunov S. D. (2026). The Cognitive Revolution: Artificial Intelligence as a Factor of the Nootransition. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S. Y. Witte INID, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 9–15. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2026-5-3-9-15