Law-making and modern technologies: conceptual problems of interrelationship and prospects for their solution
Authors: Sunegin Serhiy Oleksandrovych 
Published: January 2025

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of modern technologies, in particular information technologies, on the form and content of law-making activity. Emphasis is placed on the ambiguous and contradictory influence of modern technologies on law-making activity, its positive and negative consequences.

It is noted that the technological modernization of law-making activity is manifested primarily at the level of automation of the relevant processes that accompany the specified activity, which is achieved through the use of appropriate algorithms for processing large amounts of data, as well as artificial intelligence technologies at certain stages of the implementation of law-making activity (for example, when carrying out the examination of legal acts, in the process of legal monitoring; automatic editing of the text of the legal act, detection of inconsistencies in its norms with the norms of other legal acts; creation of legal norms with the help of online constructor algorithms, etc.). The author substantiates the opinion that the influence of modern technologies on the content of law-making is in the plane of those metamorphoses that take place in the general system of social regulation and, above all, law, morality and religion as the largest and most authoritative socionormative systems, as well as understanding and perception in connection with such changes of higher social values in the state, which are laid in the basis of modern legal regulation, directing in this way the appropriate ideological justification of the development of multifaceted communicative practices in society.

As a result of research the following conclusions are made:

1. The existence of a contradictory influence of modern technologies on law-making requires the use of a constructive, balanced approach in determining the parameters of legal regulation of social relations with a technological component, which should not place the norms of today’s communicative practices in full dependence on the opportunities provided by modern technologies for the practical implementation of internal, essentially absolute freedom of thoughts and desires of a person in the external social environment, limited by the corresponding temporal and spatial (physical) coordinates.

2. The basis of the legal regulation of artificial intelligence and its use in the legal sphere, including in lawmaking activities, should be a broad approach to understanding its essence, content and purpose, which should combine technical (for example, the security of digital technologies, data, information systems etc.), political and ideological (for example, manipulation of information, propaganda in information networks, etc.), as well as socioeconomic aspects (for example, serving the interests of society and man, being subject to human control, facilitating working conditions and economic activity, etc.). Given the specifics of modern communicative practices, as well as the multifaceted nature of risks and threats in the global information space, this is exactly the approach to understanding the nature of artificial intelligence that should be recognized by Ukraine at the state level, because its application will provide an opportunity to ensure the systematic legal regulation of modern social relations, complicated information technology component.

Key words: law-making, information technology, artificial intelligence, freedom, virtual reality, moral values.