The Risky Influence of Artificial Intelligence Technologies on the Foreign Language Proficiency of Eurasian Students in Mining

The article touches upon a topic of current importance, viz. the influence of the artificial intelligence (AI) found in some educational information and communication technologies (ICT) on the upcoming generations of graduates of higher education institutions. This is an issue of their prospective work in the industry (especially the mining one). This matter is considered for the students of mining fields of specialization in foreign language classes of the Kemerovo Region (a.k.a. Kuzbass) universities. The special group under consideration is the international students from Middle Asia, India, and China. The article aims to define the peculiarities of AI’s influence on an undergraduate via ICT in foreign language classes at the tertiary level. The article explains why some types of ICT may be considered as AI systems; how their inclusion into the educational process influences the cognitive changes of an undergraduate, and what role the level of trust plays in this. The scientific novelty is the consideration of the influence of ICT on the cognitive abilities of a student learning a foreign language through a prism of AI. In conclusion, the closer AI of ICT to the human activity working with a foreign language, the lower activation of the cognitive activity of a student is.