Features and prospects of modern education in «awaiting» AGI: the phenomenology of digital agency

In the modern world, education is undergoing an unprecedented transformation that affects not only the forms of educa-tion, but also the basic ontological level. In «anticipation» of the technological breakthrough to artificial general intelli-gence (AGI, Artificial General Intelligence), some educational systems are already starting/planning to adapt to new chal-lenges, such as the phenomenon of digital agency. What exactly is digital agency and how does its development affect educational practices? How justified is the use of corresponding technologies in the educational environments, and how does it relate to the expectation/appearance of AGI? The authors of the article, using an interdisciplinary approach, try to answer these questions in the presented article. Particular attention is given to a review of both current and prospective educational practices involving digital agents. The authors primarily rely on a phenomenological approach in the pre-sented analysis, drawing on a range of data and research from recent years to maximize the evidential strength of the corresponding prospective analytical prediction. They also used relevant data from the field of media studies, contempo-rary research on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, pedagogy and linguistics.