How russia is creating AI with “the right” values
russia has started working on creating «sovereign» artificial intelligence with the right values.
Developers will have to ensure that the AI model complies with russian «traditional spiritual and moral values». The criteria for checking whether the machine thinks «correctly» enough will be developed by the repressive russian security service fsb together with russia’s ministry of digital development.
russia has previously announced plans to create its own AI trained on the works of dostoevsky, dugin and other ideological authors. The argument is that russia needs a model without «foreign Western values».
The paradox is that russians themselves continue to actively use Western technologies while simultaneously calling for them to be banned. In the russian understanding, «sovereign» increasingly means not something of its own, but something that can be fully controlled.
putin has already signed a law regulating AI in russia. Now russian artificial intelligence must not only be «its own», but also ideologically correct.
Such a model could become a national one and fit conveniently into the so-called sovereign russian internet, where the state determines which resources can be available to citizens and which cannot.
