The talk “Humanity’s imprisonment in neural networks” helded at Manege on September 7.

Nowadays, artificial intelligence in the form of neural networks is ubiquitous. Every object, every wish, and every relationship are ceaselessly being analyzed, encoded, and duplicated in virtual reality. When they know everything there is to know about everyone, and every action must be rational, does a person have the latitude to err, to meander aimlessly, or even to do foolish things in daily life?

As we plunge into virtual reality every day, do we still have recourse to all the provisions of real-life laws? Would not their enforcement seem absurd? And, with that in mind, who owns the rights to products generated by artificial neural networks? These are some of the issues we have discussed.

Speakers:

• Vladislav Arkhipov -- doctor of jurisprudence, head of the Department of Theory and History of the State and Law at St. Petersburg State University, counsel for the IP, IT, and Telecommunications Practice at Dentons law offices, expert in the Gaming Industry and E-sports cluster of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications;
• Alexander Lenkevich -- deputy director of the Computer Game Research Laboratory (LIKI), research seminar planner at LIKI, research associate at the Media Philosophy Center of the Philosophy Institute at St. Petersburg State University, professor at ITMO University in St. Petersburg;
• Konstantin Ocheretyany -- media philosopher and computer game theorist, candidate of philosophy (St. Petersburg State University, 2015), staff member of the Department of the Philosophy of Science and Technology at St. Petersburg State University, member of the global Game Philosophy Network and the international editorial board of the journal Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies;
• Valery Savchuk -- doctor of philosophy, professor of the Department of Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Culture, and Aesthetics at the Philosophy Institute of St. Petersburg State University, director of the Media Philosophy Center of the Philosophy Institute of St. Petersburg State University.

You can watch this lecture on our YouTube-channel.

General Partner for the exhibition — SIBUR.

Partner for Manege’s educational program — The Mikhail Bazhenov Foundation.