January 20, 2025, the Russian State Library organised online lecture “Ethics and AI – Problems or Opportunities?” Speaker Valery Putintseva-Ardanskaya, graduate of Moscow State University, candidate of Philosophy, senior research fellow of Moscow Museum of Modern Art and top-3 nominee of the “Zverev Art Prize” professional art contest, raised the urgent theme of ethics in the era of digital technologies. It dealt with the way the system of values of digital capitalism reboots world outlook of each of us. You will have a chance to trace the history of transformation of ethical principles during more than 2000-year time period of the development of philosophical views. You will learn how the natural human need for strong emotions gave birth to the demand for art works in the ancient era and how efficiently it is used by contemporary professionals of the digital market. You will discover the development of the Marxist theory in the modern concepts by Paul Mason, Nick Syrnchek and his platform capitalism. What is an ‘ideal customer’ like? What is an illusion of infinite choice and how does it fight against us? Do there exist any reasonable causes of increase of prices for posthumous moderation of a personal account? And is it true that the development of the AI-based technologies would often be carried out on the verge from pure ethical points of view? Watch the stream which is sure to make think all that over even most pragmatic users!
The lecture by Valery Putintseva-Ardanskaya is available on the link.
All the streams of the Russian State Library can be watched on its official VKontakte webpage.
The lecture by Valery Putintseva-Ardanskaya is available on the link.
All the streams of the Russian State Library can be watched on its official VKontakte webpage.