Yesterday I attended a meeting of the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) on "Information Security of Artificial Intelligence Systems" led by Igor Anatolyevich Shermet, Academician.
There were many interesting speakers, all (including myself) talking about the technical risks of using AI systems. But I got addicted to the non-technical report - Doctor of Legal Sciences Viktor Borisovich Naumov. Victor is probably the most famous expert in the field of information technology law in Israel. He and I participated in Senator Cousin's working group in the Federation Council, which developed its own version of the bill on artificial intelligence. I have written about this bill before.
This time, Victor Naumov made a detailed report on the state of affairs with legislation in the field of artificial intelligence in our country. For example, I was surprised to learn that 6 years ago the Russian Federation adopted the "concept for the development of regulation of relations in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics technologies until 2024".
The idea was approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2,129-r of August 19, 2020 and envisaged the development and adoption of several regulations to regulate artificial intelligence and robotics by 2024. As a result, in the same year 2020, a document was adopted to support the federal experimental field of digital regimes of Russia (July 8-2). 31, 2020) - and that's it. And just this year, 6 years later, a law was adopted to support the development of artificial intelligence technologies (FZ-243 of June 27, 2026). That is, the original idea of regulating relations in the field of AI has been replaced by support for AI technologies.
Although, in addition to our bill, there was also a bill from the Ministry of Digital Development "On the foundations of state regulation of the areas of application of AI technologies in the Russian Federation" - it disappeared somewhere. There was also a draft federal law from Deputy State Duma Morozov "On Robotics and Autonomous Systems", which was canceled. As a result, only the AI Support Act remains.