The article deals with the problems of human formation in the information society. It is argued that digital technologies are gaining ontological status and are gradually replacing traditional communication practices and relations. Digitalization contributes to a certain rupture of space and time, since the connection between them is no longer mediated by a specific place of social action. The rapid development of artificial intelligence threatens the foundation of human civilization, as it can push people out of the world they have created for themselves. The humanistic orientation of culture, which was once based on the idea of anthropocentrism, is gradually changing to an information and digital orientation