Ризики кіберсоціалізації: сьгодення і недалеке майбутнє

The article identifies current and possible future psychological risks that are based on thetransition of modern digital technologies from the field of scientific development to everyday life. The maintasks of the study were: qualitative analysis of scientific and popular science literature by Ukrainian and foreignauthors and the author's vision of the most relevant risks of cyber socialization and prediction of the risks thathumanity may face in the near future. The authors present eighteen risks that are embodied both at the individuallevel (or small group level) and in the global world, namely: impoverishment of the emotional sphere of human,excess confidence in new technologies, reduced cognitive function, psychological dependence on technology,health threats and blocking of physical development, cyborgization of the human body, destruction of socialrelations and separation of people from each other, reorientation of emotional attachments, distortion of ideasabout sexual life, distortion of ideas about human beauty, the phenomenon of "fake life", cybercrime,destruction of reputation, ousting people from their jobs and replacing them with robots, destroying the socialstructure of society, information dictatorship of the state, parasociality and simularization of political actors,threat to human life by robots and artificial intelligence. The material presented in this article can be used foreducational work with minors in school or family circles, in the development of practical classes or trainingsessions on media literacy, as well as for the preparation of lectures for students in media and cyber psychology.The authors of the study point out its limitations in the form that the presented risks are the mostproblematic at this stage of social development or those that may create real problems in the near future, butclarify that each year the global technology market produces new products that can improve human life andmake it more complicated at the same time, creating a new round of psychological risks. Therefore, thedescriptions of the risks presented in this paper may become irrelevant in a few years.The authors see further perspectives in the detailed study of psychological aspects of interaction at the"human-robot" level: people's attitude to cyborgization of their own body, analysis of risks associated with therobotization of society at the level of media images created by the film industry, coverage of currentphenomenon of sex robots.