Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Global Digitalization of Society

The article is focused on the current realities that force governments and societies to turn to digital technologies, responding to the crisis in the short term, eliminating the socio-economic consequences in the medium term, and rethinking existing policies and their tools in the long term. The main goal is to find out last achievements of artificial intelligence, its major breakthrough in basic economic patterns, and parts of its technology and application, using methods of theoretical analysis. To overcome this difficult stage, the majority are forced to use digital services and communication channels in all spheres of life within the world community. Digital technologies have encouraged some economies and societies to avoid complete stagnation during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as allowed them to learn more about the virus, speed up the searching process for a vaccine, and track the pandemic development, but the crisis has also highlighted the dependence on digital technologies and exposed that the digital reality is divided between and within countries. We are at a turning point in digital transformation, and how successfully the population can progress and tackle these gaps will determine the shape of future economies and societies in general after COVID era.