Zakharova announced the use of AI technology for ideological control The course observed in several countries towards the formation of societies with the only accepted opinion, the catalyst of which is artificial intelligence, threatens the degeneration of critical thinking, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. "I mean the constant trend that has been observed in certain countries, and one could even say such a move, the mainstream, towards the formation of companies with the only accepted opinion, where all manifestations of dissent are immediately rejected and condemned almost as a crime now," she said at the "Digital Solutions" forum.