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Belarus suggests working out uniform AI guidelines for EAEU
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MINSK, 28 May (BelTA) – Belarus proposes establishing common rules of the game for artificial intelligence in the EAEU, BelTA learned from Belarusian Communications and Informatization Minister Kirill Zalessky during the session “Principles of responsible AI use in Eurasian economic integration” at the Eurasian Economic Forum in Astana.
“Our goal is to ensure that artificial intelligence within the EAEU space serves to strengthen the economic subjectivity of our states rather than creating new barriers. Speaking of the initial steps, it is important to identify certain priorities so that we do not attempt to agree on everything at once. We need to move forward with a pragmatic focus on immediate and fundamental positions,” Kirill Zalessky said.
He named the harmonization of standards and statutory regulation as one of the priorities. “We need common rules of the game. Along with combining mechanical data arrays or models, we also need to synchronize the regulatory environment. We need common Eurasian standards in technological security of artificial intelligence, the ethics of generative systems, and formats for our inter-system interaction. Otherwise, the cross-border turnover of data and the scaling of our solutions will simply be blocked by barriers,” the minister noted.
In his words, Belarus begins with technical standards when building its domestic regulation in the field of AI. A specialized technical committee has been set up for this purpose. “We are forming our own regulatory framework and are basically ready to share our approaches. I think the EAEU countries have common problems from both technical and regulatory standpoints as well as in terms of fine-tuning open-source language models. At the national level, each of us considers the need for linguistic adaptation, proper tokenization, and tuning based on national content. Artificial intelligence has to correctly understand the national, historical, and legal contexts. These challenges are relevant to all of us, and cooperation here can be built quite successfully in order to prevent multi-speed integration,” Kirill Zalessky emphasized.
“Today artificial intelligence is being integrated into information systems across virtually all industry-specific sectors of interaction inside the union. Sooner or later, we will come to understand the need to establish common standards and the interaction of these systems with each other. The sooner we work out these rules, the better,” the head of the Communications and Informatization Ministry stressed.
He also suggested thinking about a distributed regional network of competencies in the field of AI to save the budgets of the union countries on training and developing models. “For instance, one state develops models in education, another in healthcare, and a third in the legal sphere. This will reduce the administrative burden. In Belarus we’ve conducted a survey among government agencies and economy branches in general regarding the demand for artificial intelligence systems, gaining a fairly clear understanding of the problems. I am convinced that in all countries of the union the demand for artificial intelligence systems and large language models, at least in government agencies, is roughly the same. I think we can share this burden and exchange certain typical agents,” Kirill Zalessky believes.
He proposed logistics as a pilot sector. “A lot has already been digitized in logistics today. Large arrays of structured data are generated, and an economic effect is already visible. I think that the further implementation of artificial intelligence systems here can maximize this effect,” the minister concluded.
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