Digital transformation and artificial intelligence as the basis of a new technological paradigm of economic development and management

The transition to a new technological paradigm is considered through a combination of large-scale digital transformation and the institutionalization of the development of artificial intelligence. The focus is not on individual technologies, but on the formation of a data economy in which control over the infrastructure for collecting, storing and processing information becomes the source of growth and power. It shows how national strategies and projects on AI and digital transformation consolidate a shift in priorities: from the modernization of industries to the construction of sovereign contours of data, computing power and national AI models.Against this background, the mechanisms of global and technological inequality within the country are analyzed due to asymmetric access to digital infrastructure, competencies and markets, as well as the redistribution of resources in favor of actors controlling key platforms and algorithmic systems. Special attention is paid to the use of artificial intelligence as a tool of social control, from the introduction of algorithmic management in public administration to monitoring, profiling and selective access to services and information.In the final perspective, artificial intelligence, being closely linked to the digital infrastructure, acts not as a set of applied solutions, but as a new configuration of power. The defining resource is the ability to create, accumulate, and interpret data. In practice, this is reflected in the redistribution of centers of influence, changing regulatory priorities and consolidating the advantages of those actors who control information flows and manage algorithmic systems.