On the border between automatic control and artificial intelligence

The contribution deals with the discussion of points of contact and historical differences between automatic control and artificial intelligence. It shows that many problems concerning automatic regulation, that is, keeping process quantities at a constant level, try to be owned by both disciplines and that the given fact does not have to be harmful if we can learn from the resulting consequences. This can be illustrated, for example, by analyzing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on the development of human society, when parallel problems can also be shown in the development of automatic control. And this is not only related to problems that will "asymptotically" touch us sometime in the distant future, but also problems related to solving current problems of university education.