Svetlana Klimova

At the present level of AI development, humanity doesn’t have to worry about a machine uprising just yet. However, the use of improperly trained AIs in important fields and attempts to use it to exercise control over people’s lives may pose a real threat in the near future. This was the topic of a seminar on ‘The Unexpected Threats of AI’ recently hosted by the HSE University Laboratory of Transcendental Philosophy.

This year, HSE has supported the founding of 10 new Research and Teaching Laboratories (RTLs) in various fields, from cognitive psychology and computer modeling, to international justice and economics of sports.

On November 23-24, 2017 there was held the international scientific conference "S.L. Frank: Postrevolutionary Downfall of Idols", organized by the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue.

The article reconstructs an original concept of myth developed by Mikhail Lifshits. He invented the term “logomythia”, as the “art of discrimination”, to show the ambivalent nature of creative work, where archaic myth dies as a historical nonsense and resurrects as a human meaning. Logomythia demonstrates the overcoming of the irrational element in the life of societies by linking it to the rational or meaningful content of artistic images. And, on the other hand, the concept contains more than a hint of the crisis of rationalism in the twentieth century which destroyed the harmony of man with nature.

The University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy issued the ninth volume of the Russian, Polish and English textbook ‘Ideas in Russia’. Articles by Svetlana Klimova, professor at the School of Philosophy, are included in the book.