“Smart” production — the reality and vector of modernity in the context of law

Abstract

The article analyzes some elements of the way of Russia’s industry to the technological design of “Industry 4.0” through the prism of artificial intelligence, industrial Internet of things, “smart” manufacturing and robotics. The author comes to the conclusion that these practical embodiments of the idea of “Industry 4.0” already raise a number of ethical and legal questions — the need for: developing a new notion of the “source of increased danger” / “ultra-hazardous activity”; elaborating new subjects of responsibility for the harm caused; determining a person’s place in “smart” production in the context of the emergence of new, atypical forms of employment (for example, platform employment); searching for new guarantees of human employment, etc., which require answers.