Value Orientations and Public Service in the Context of New Challenges and Threats

Abstract

The article touches upon important issues of civil service development in the context of modern challenges and threats. In the introduction, current trends characterizing the role and importance of value orientations for public service in Russia are described. The assessment of the formed regulatory framework of the civil service is given. It is suggested that there is currently a transformation of the civil servants’ value orientations in Russia. It is argued that such processes are initiated mainly by a special military operation and global changes in modern society associated with the transition to a new technological order. The main part of the article using different sources verifies this assumption. The special military operation has highlighted a number of significant changes affecting the values of Russian society. This part also outlines the future challenges and threats that are being formed today, related to the use of artificial intelligence-based systems in solving public service tasks. The article describes the multiple problems of implementing artificial intelligence-based systems in public administration based on the experience of Great Britain. The paper provides an assessment of the risks associated with the introduction of artificial intelligence systems in public administration. Among the new class of tasks that are highlighted are the tasks of ensuring the security of systems based on artificial intelligence. The most significant task is the formation of value orientations, which are included in the training data sets. As a result, it is concluded that value orientations in the civil service are becoming particularly important today due to the ongoing transformations and require special attention to their formulation and interpretation.