PaKSoM 2022 ISBN: 978-86-82602-00-2 353 Quis custodiet ipsos custodes: Ethical Dillemmas of the KM Governed by AI Željko Bjelajac 1 , Aleksandar M. Filipović 2 , Lazar Stošić 3 1 Faculty of Law for Commerce and Judiciary, Geri Karolja 1, Novi Sad, Serbia 2 Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management, Cvećarska 2, Novi Sad, Serbia 3 Don State Technical University, Gagarin Square 1, Rostov-on-Don, Russia 1 zdjbjelajac@gmail.com, 2 sasha.filipovic@gmail.com, 3 lazarstosic@yahoo.com Abstract—Knowledge Management (KM) has become one of the most discussed issues both in the academic community and among people directly working in the field of information technology (ICT). However, regardless of the academic level, the engineering and technological aspects of the phenomenon are mostly discussed. The essence of knowledge, its sources and dissemination, the questionable need to store all human knowledge in one place, the motives of knowledge givers and seekers, have received less attention in the literature than their importance dictates, both in terms of practical results and ethical issues. This paper aims to try to identify some of the ethical aspects of knowledge management, in order to show that much of the current discussion ignores or underestimates the well-known aspects of this topic, especially the risk of the "dark side" of KM and AI, which, if they were to develop, as before, freely and without the broadest social control, could threaten "life as we know it", and especially its greatest value, human freedom as the first in the primary series of values of human life. Keywords – knowledge management, artificial intelligence, Big Data, ethics, risks I. INTRODUCTION No matter how much it seems that the phenomenon of KM is mystified and epistemologically almost enchanted, there is a man behind it. There are big corporations and big governments with their interests, which are believed to be not always aligned with the interests of man. At the center of this work could be found the question of who and how can or must distribute justice, that is, to declare himself the owner of the world's quantum of knowledge and to give it or not to give it to others according to his choice. In earlier works on similar topics, we have already written about new technologies, especially AI technology, which residentially produce modern global superheroes, such as Moore's Watchmen or, simply, "keepers" of knowledge, all with the aim of unauthorized creation and implementation of a new model of institutional justice. This makes sense in the light of the thesis of this work, because the behavior of creators and apologists of feverish and at times hysterical storage of their human knowledge for the sake of later rational distribution of its postulates, implies the attitude that ordinary people are not capable of judicious moral reasoning, so that's why they need guardians with superhero powers: to protect people from themselves. Everything as in the Jesuit exclamation: Omnia ad maiorem Dei gloriam, with the fact that here, instead of the good Lord, profit corporations, new weapons and the military power of the Governments appear as beneficiaries of the glory. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes is a Latin interrogative phrase written by Juvenal in his Satire. A phrase can have several similar meanings, so it is translated according to the desired meanings. In literature and dictionaries, it is most often translated as the question: "Who will guard (supervise) the guards themselves?" This is because of the notorious attitude that no one should be outside and above control and supervision, especially not those who, by law or some other rule, have power over other people. This saying can also be interpreted as an expression of ancient democracy's concern for the possible arbitrariness of people exercising power. The practice of public life shows that this