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Putin Launches BRICS AI Alliance, Expects Global Participation

December 13, 2024
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, visits an exhibition at AI Journey, Sberbank's international conference on artificial intelligence technology, in Moscow, [PHOTO: Reuters]

At this conference on AI Journey, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of BRICS-enhancing artificial intelligence and that he expected many following countries to join this alliance soon.

“An Agency of seriousness will be the international Alliance of national associations and development institutions in artificial intelligence of States from BRICS and other interested countries; today, we will launch such an alliance at a conference, ‘Journey to the World of Artificial Intelligence,” the President said. “I expect new foreign participants, including my colleagues – the first persons of states, to join this event.

The President has said that Russia is ready to facilitate and apply generative models across and beyond the Russian framework. “The algorithms of such systems, as I have already said, must be trusted, that is, understandable, open and unbiased, developed taking into account the cultural, national characteristics of each civilization with its history, identity, and traditions, which we in Russia treat with deep respect,” the President summed up.

According to Reuters, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would develop artificial intelligence with BRICS partners and other countries, in a bid to challenge the dominance of the United States in one of the most promising and crucial technologies of the 21st century.

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The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings, and named primary sources, corroborating with Reuters, the BBC, and the Kyiv Independent.

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