Paul Goble
Staunton, Aug. 23 – At various international conferences, Russian representatives frequently claim that Moscow is using artificial intelligence to protect non-Russians living in the Russian Federation; but that is an outright lie that must be countered, Andrey Danilov says.
The Saami activist says that in fact Moscow’s use of AI is making it ever easier for Russian officials to search out those whom Moscow has already defined as extremist and then take steps against them, an increasing share of whom are non-Russians (indigenous-russia.com/archives/49776).
It has just become known, Danilov continues, that researchers at the Southern Urals State University have come up with an AI system that “automatically analyzes texts and searchers for terms like ‘foreign agents,’ ‘extremists,’ ‘undesirable organizations’ and other categories” and comparing these texts with Russian government data bases.
Consequently, he concludes, what everyone needs to remember and be reminded of is that “artificial intelligence itself does not protect human rights. Instead, it strengthens the system that is making use of it.” When it is in the hands of those who want to expand human rights, AI can have one result; when it is in the hands of those against that, it has a very different one.
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