Digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the educational sphere: pros and cons

Introduction . The article explicates the problem of using digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the educational sphere, which are positioned as the most complex multi-valued phenomena that have a significant impact on both the subject of the educational process and the quality of education in general. The study shows advantages and disadvantages of these phenomena. Purpose setting . The relevance and significance of the problem of digital technologies and artificial intelligence aims to analyze this phenomenon in the plane of the main trends and prospects for its development, the ambiguity of the results of its impact on the educational process. Methodology and methods of the study . In this regard, a dialectical approach is recognized as appropriate, interpreting any process, phenomenon in the unity of contradictory aspects and development trends, as well as the results of impact. In this context, the ambiguous, contradictory nature of the impact of digital technologies and artificial intelligence on the processes of training and education of young people is emphasized. Results . The article reveals advantages and disadvantages of the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. The positive vector of the use of technical facilities in education is stressed in general. It is emphasized that in the academic process only those types of artificial intelligence should be used that initiate the creative, constructive humanistic, and moral components of the personality of students. At the same time, ethical values are recognized as a key point of the use of artificial intelligence. The results of the study have theoretical and practical significance in solving the problems of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the educational sphere. Conclusion . The need to develop a variety of socially progressive manifestations of artificial intelligence is indicated. The use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the educational sphere imposes additional responsibility for the use of these innovative teaching aids due to their significant influence on the worldview, value system and spiritual world of young people in general. It is important to expand and strengthen educational measures in educational institutions aimed at the rational use of these resources, in particular the Internet, in an analytical and critical aspect.