Post-release on the results of International symposium “AI Generating New Habits. Critical Reflections”

On June 02 to 30, 2025, International Society for Information Studies held its Summit – a scheduled, biannual academic event dedicated to presenting and discussing current achievement in the fields of the study of information. Within the framework of the Summit program, there was a hybrid symposium organized in Vienna by Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society under the title “AI Generating New Habits. Critical Reflections”. The goal of the symposium was to promote an interdisciplinary discussion on the issues related to the usage of AI-based technologies in today’s society, as while AI makes daily life of humans safer, easier, and healthier in many aspects, it also poses serious threats to human rights and human society overall.

There were researchers from many countries of the world taking part the symposium, including Austria, China, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic, Ukraine, France, and the USA, who presented their critical reflection on possibilities of applying AI-based technologies in order to enhance human lives and on the risks and challenges related to the usage of those technologies.

Amongst the invited participants of the symposium, there was a representative of the Institute of higher education of the NAES of Ukraine – Yurii Mielkov, Dr. Hab. in Philosophy, Sen. Researcher, Chief research fellow of the Department of social and institutional transformations in higher education. In his report titled “The place and role of humans in the age of Generative AI”, Dr. Yurii Mielkov presented his philosophical consideration on the impact the usage AI-based technologies could and does have on human life and human professional and educational activities, as well as on the possible reply humanity can have to the challenges related to the becoming of Generative AI.