Technological utopia and artificial intelligence: representation in the literature of the early 21st century (based on the libretto of the electronic opera “2032: the legend of the unfulfilled future” by V. Argonov)

Problem statement. Scientific and technological progress associated with the ubiquitous spread of automation and development of the Internet entailed a transformation in the methods of production and perception of information, which outlined new ethical problems associated with technology and artificial intelligence, represented in fiction. Thus, the purpose of this article lies in identifying the elements of the phenomenon of technoutopia in literature (based on the libretto of the electronic opera by V. Argonov “2032: The Legend of the Unfulfilled Future”), in determining the place of artificial intelligence in it, as well as in considering options for resolving ethical issues related to this issue. Methodology (materials and methods). The paper demonstrates both traditional literary research methods (literary hermeneutics, analysis of mythopoetics) and philosophical methods (the author relies on the philosophy of technology, the philosophy of transhumanism). Research results. The results of the study are the identification of the genetic connection between techno-utopia and the Soviet utopian project, based, among other things, on Gnosticism, as well as identification of the central place of artificial intelligence in the artistic world of the emerging technological utopia. Conclusions. Reading the text at the profane and religious-mystical levels provides a key to understanding one of the vectors of development of socialist realist literature as utopian. It reveals how Soviet mythology is being transformed, for example, the myth of a large Stalinist family, the image of a leader on the basis of post-Soviet culture. As a result of the interdisciplinary complex analysis of the text, it can be concluded that there is a contradiction between the ideology of the new techno-utopia and the postulates of socialist realism.