Russian AI Must Be Based on Radically Conservative Russian Texts, Malofeyev Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Dec. 11 – AI, as artificial intelligence is known, reflects the texts that are used to predict and select materials for inclusion in texts it comes up with and distributes. In the West, these texts are typically the most recent; but Konstantin Malofeyev says that in Russia they should reflect more conservative ones.

            Among the texts the Orthodox oligarch suggests Russian AI must be based on are Domostroy, the 16^th century guide to family life, the Gospels, and the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Ivan Ilin, and Aleksandr Dugin (t.me/kvmalofeev/3970, discussed at moscowtimes.ru/2025/12/11/v-rossii-predlozhili-sozdat-iskusstvennii-intellekt-na-osnove-domostroya-i-trudov-dugina-a182627).

            Otherwise, Malofeyev warns, the thoughtless use of Western models will lead to “the loss of identity” among Russians and the penetration of Western values given that as Patriarch Kirill has already warned, AI “removes a sense of responsibility” from those individuals who use it without understanding how it is generated.

            To oversee this process of creating a sovereign Russian internet, he calls for the creation in the Russian Federation of “an internet special service” analogous in his view to the National Security Agency of the US or to the Cyber Space Administration in the Peoples Republic of China.

            What Malofeyev is calling for in many ways would introduce into Russia AI something that Russian intelligence services have already tried to insert into Western AI platforms by creating bots that flood the information space Western AI uses in generating texts for widely used Internet portals.