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On June 24, 2026, the All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted the International Scientific Conference "Artificial Intelligence: yesterday, today, tomorrow", dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the emergence of the term "artificial intelligence". The event was attended by more than a hundred leading representatives of the expert community, whose activities are related to the study of AI technologies and the practice of their implementation in various branches of science, industry and management of socio-economic systems.
In his welcoming speech addressed to the conference participants, Sergey Vladimirovich Garbuk, Acting Director of VINITI RAS, PhD, emphasized the importance of continuous improvement of the national scientific and technical information system to support the development of Russian technology companies and the implementation of interdisciplinary research projects in the field of AI. He noted the role of platforms for joint discussion of scientists and practitioners to strengthen the country's technological sovereignty and form models for the responsible use of AI technologies, which are impossible without a comprehensive scientific and value-ethical assessment of the proposed solutions.
The speakers of the plenary session were key representatives of Russian research and educational organizations. The report by Vladislav Alexandrovich Lektorsky, PhD, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, examined the anthropological challenges arising from the rapid intensification of the development of AI technologies. Igor Anatolyevich Kalyaev, PhD, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific director of the SFU department, turned to the coverage of the connection between AI and supercomputing technologies. The report of Viktor Konstantinovich Finn, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Scientific director of the Department of Intelligent Systems in the Humanitarian Field of the Russian State State University, was devoted to the history of the development of AI as a scientific and technological branch in Russia. Albert Ruvimovich Efimov, PhD, Director of the Research and Innovation Department at Sberbank, offered a view on AI technologies in the context of megatrends and global challenges. The recorded trends in the development of AI as a scientific and technical branch were summarized in the report of Yuri V. Visilter, PhD, Director of AI at the FAU GosNIIAS, Scientific Director of the Institute of AI at MIPT.
You can watch the video of the plenary session here.
The work of the section "Artificial Intelligence Technologies: history, current state and development prospects" (moderated by Yuri V. Visilter, PhD) was aimed at discussing a wide range of scientific, technical and applied issues related to the development of the AI industry and individual intelligent technologies. The reports of the section participants highlighted the achievements and challenges arising from the use of AI to solve engineering, biomedical, and socio-economic problems.
The section "Shaping the future: education in the field of artificial intelligence" (moderated by Irina Mikhailovna Shadrina, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Director of the Department of Education at VINITI RAS) discussed the issues of training qualified personnel necessary for the development of the practice of applying AI technologies in various fields of science and practice. The discussion vector was set by an urgent request to find effective methods of developing IT competencies among students of higher education programs in various fields. The participants touched upon a range of topics related to the necessary adaptive transformations of educational institutions caused by the development of AI.
Organized by the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence (RAII), the round table "Artificial Intelligence in Science, Education and Industry" (moderated by Mikhail Ivanovich Zabezhailo, PhD, Professor at MIPT, Chief Researcher at FITZ Informatics and Management of the Russian Academy of Sciences) was devoted to the analysis and discussion of domestic and foreign scientific developments related to the use of AI in the management of industrial processes, in the organization and conduct of scientific research. The speakers presented various points of view regarding the prospects for the influence of AI on the development trajectories of science and education. The subject of special attention was the search for ways to prevent and overcome the negative socio-anthropological consequences of technology improvement.