Putin instructed to give AI developers access to databases of anonymized data of Russians

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Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed at the legislative level to provide Russian developers of artificial intelligence, business and science with access to anonymous state data arrays. Any attempt to establish a data monopoly now restricts free competition, he said.

“I ask you to make legislative decisions as soon as possible that will provide Russian developers of artificial intelligence, scientific organizations, and business with access to the massifs of impersonal data of the state, especially since such, in professional slang,“ data sets ”have already been formed by ministries and departments,” he said. Mr. Putin at the international conference on artificial intelligence and data analysis AI Journey 2021 (quoted by RIA Novosti).

According to the president, in Russia it is necessary to start training specialists in the field of artificial intelligence as soon as possible. He also spoke about the importance of the secure use of data, especially biometric data.

“Special decisions should be made with regard to information that is critical to the safety of citizens. First of all, we are talking about biometric data, which are increasingly being used to carry out financial and other transactions, including to pay for fares, say, in the metro, as is already being done in Moscow. I believe that such extremely personal information should be stored in a unified state system of biometric identification, that is, the state should take responsibility for its storage, ”said Mr Putin.

At the end of October, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved measures for digital transformation in the field of public administration for the next ten years. The key technologies to be implemented are artificial intelligence, big data and the Internet of Things. They should work to create a unified system for collecting and analyzing socio-economic indicators, budget data, transferring supervision to a remote format.

More details – in the material of “Kommersant” “AI one, two, took.”

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