Abstract: Social changes and productivity development keeps changing social relations and drives the realization of human freedom. With the advance of the revolution of modern information technology, the new artificial intelligence technology with big data and algorithm as the core has been rapidly developed and deeply applied. Intelligence has brought a real paradigm change to the society and provided the possibility for realizing the free and comprehensive human development. Human society is stepping into a new technological social form—intelligent society. However, the intelligent society is faced with many challenges, such as the gradual replacement of human labor responsibilities by artificial intelligence, the algorithm risk caused by the alienation of intelligent society technology, and the hidden domination of intelligent science and technology over the subject, which causes difficulties to the realization of human freedom in intelligent society. We must examine the risks and challenges of an intelligent society and, under a co-built and shared mechanism, to ensure equal rights to work for all, to standardize the algorithm rules and to establish a reasonable algorithm accountability system, so as to restoring man’s subjective status and to realize man’s free and comprehensive development.

Key words: the predicament of freedom, social form, intelligent society, artificial intelligence, regulation of algorithm