What is happening in Russia right now with regards to development of artificial intelligence? In today’s bingecast, Samuel Bendett and Robert J. Marks discuss Russian military and non-military development of AI including autonomous weapons, entrepreneurship, and free enterprise.

Show Notes

• 00:46 | Introducing Samuel Bendett, advisor with the CNA Adversary Analysis Group
• 01:37 | Samuel Bendett’s background
• 02:14 | Russian non-military development of AI
• 09:28 | Taking risks in development
• 10:53 | Is Russia starting to embrace free enterprise?
• 12:07 | Incentives for entrepreneurs in Russia
• 13:42 | Major players in Russian AI development
• 15:30 | Examples of Russian entrepreneurship
• 16:38 | Companies creating other companies
• 18:43 | Russian academia and AI development
• 20:39 | How does the Russian military define artificial intelligence?
• 22:21 | Deepfakes
• 23:39 | Where is the work on Russian military AI happening?
• 27:58 | Swarm intelligence projects in Russia
• 29:43 | The structure of research institutions in Russia
• 30:20 | Academia in Russian military AI development
• 31:43 | Development of autonomous weapons in Russia

Additional Resources

• Samuel Bendett at the Center for a New American Security
• CNA website
• CNA’s Center for Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
• CNA Russia Studies Program
• Articles by Samuel Bendett at Defense One
• NTech Lab
• ABBYY
• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
• Rostec
• Artificial Intelligence In Russia Newsletter (on the left side of the page near the bottom)
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Advanced Research Foundation (Фонд перспективных исследований) at Wikipedia
• “Russia Wants to Build a Whole City for Developing Weapons” by Samuel Bendett at War is Boring