Valdai Discussion Club Report
Introduction
Today, a new technological paradigm is emerging, shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things, robotics, cloud technology, supercomputing systems, and various advanced forms of technology capable ...
With new alarming predictions being made every week, it is important to explore the limitations of AI. The human brain provides the best reference point
The global infoscape is currently abuzz with
alarmist predictions
over the dangers posed by artificial intelligence (AI). Billionaire entrepreneurs and their hirelings, who had once gushed over ...
New technological breakthroughs in AI: outlook, opportunities, threats and risks
Introduction
Less than six months have passed since the last
review
on the topic in question, but the rapid developments in Large Language Models (LLM) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) require ...
For digitalization’s “engine” to run safely and smoothly, it needs greener “oil”
Digitalization accompanies and drives modern human development. It has led to a huge boom in the volume of available information and its streamlining. Additionally, it has led to increasing the speed of decision-making, and simplified means of communication amid decreasing business travel intensity, and the volume of resources required for traditional correspondence....
Filling the gap in the awareness of the nature and scope of threats to society associated with modern and future MUAI practices amid the global crisis
In December 2022, the International Center for Social and Political Studies and Consulting published the second report
“
Experts on the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to International Psychological ...
A review of the year’s defining trends in Artificial Intelligence
The outgoing year has demonstrated, on the one hand, continued growth in the power and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) relying on so-called “foundation models”, based on deep neural networks such “astransformers”. On the other hand, we were witnessing an entrenchment of certain trends of AI’s development that have to do with overcoming of well-known limitations ...
To survive in a fragmenting world, the West has opted for a strategy of cooperation and consolidation. This begs the question, though, of the system’s economic sustainability given limited market for sales
Protectionism, the pandemic and the sanctions wars that we have been witnessing over the past few years have contributed to the curtailment of globalisation as we knew it. The international division of labour ...
States, especially those with leading scientific and technological capabilities, can and should cooperate to prevent anti-social actors from using information technologies based on ever-improving new AI capabilities
In December 2021, the International Center for Social and Political Studies and Consulting published the report “
Experts on the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence and Challenges to International Psychological Security
”, penned ...
... transparency
” emanating from the society. In this review, we will try to probe this gap, discussing what trends and solutions can help resolve the problem or lead to its further exacerbation.
Developments of Recent Years
Anton Kolonin:
Future Goals in the AI Race: Explainable AI and Transfer Learning
First of all, what we know as strong or general AI (AGI) has become a well-established item on the global agenda. A team of Russian-speaking researchers and developers has published
a book on this topic
,...
... political violence. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration.
Interviewed by Tatyana Kanunnikova.
What will be the role of drones in future terrorist attacks?
If we look at some of the most recent examples in Europe—for instance, the Gatwick Airport incident where drone sightings were reported—these led to a lot of confusion among airport officials as well as policymakers and law enforcement. In this specific case, we are talking about dozens of flights canceled, millions in costs for the ...