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2023

Russia and India begin standardization of artificial intelligence

On September 30, 2023, the Russoft Association, the Chamber of Indo-Russian Technological Cooperation (Chamber for Indo Russo Technology Collaboration, CIRTC) and the Russian Technical Committee No. 164 of the Rosstandart of the Russian Federation "Artificial Intelligence" signed two memoranda of intent for cooperation aimed at developing relations between Russia and India in the IT region. One of the documents concerns the standardization of AI, as well as the creation of a joint laboratory for certification of solutions in the field of artificial intelligence.

A historic memorandum of understanding was signed to establish a joint AI testing, standards and policy laboratory between India and Russia. This initiative, which in the future can be extended to other BRICS countries, - commented Debjit Chakraborty, director of the chamber for Indo-Russian technological cooperation, representative of the Russian-Indian Association (Russia India Special Interest Group, RISING), whose words are quoted by the Russoft press service.

Two memoranda were signed aimed at developing relations between Russia and India in the IT region

On October 23, 2023, Russoft President Valentin Makarov clarified that the partnership participants had already created a working group and began to develop standards for solutions in the field of artificial intelligence.

According to him India , a laboratory will also appear in which AI solutions will be certified health care , agriculture will be the first industries for standardizing AI solutions, and the first results of work are expected by April 2024.

Standards are needed first of all so that the solutions of Russian developers immediately meet the standards in India and they can enter the Indian market without additional licensing... We want to create standards common to the BRICS countries in order to minimize the overhead costs of vendors and create equal conditions for the development of companies, "Makarov explained.[1]

The Ministry of Digital Development Science forms the standard of personal data for artificial intelligence

At the end of June 2023, it became known that the Ministry of Digital Development creates a standard for personal data for systems and services using artificial intelligence tools.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, the Ministry of Digital Development, together with participants in the IT industry, is unifying methods for depersonalizing personal data (PD) and working with them for subjects of critical information infrastructure (CII). Such entities include, in particular, government agencies, telecom operators, etc. It is assumed that in the future the accumulated data will be used to train various AI algorithms or language models. According to Deputy Head of the Ministry of Digital Development Alexander Shoytov, the requirements for unification and standardization should be proposed to the state by the developers of AI systems themselves.

The Ministry of Digital Development Industry creates a personal data standard for systems and services using artificial intelligence tools

We have the task of developing unification methods for artificial intelligence. This is the starting point, precisely in critical applications (for CII subjects). Where there will be no critical applications, this unification will probably not be mandatory, "Shoitov said.

It is noted that work on the methodology in the field of personal data depersonalization has already begun. State Duma The draft law on regulatory regulation of one of the approaches to depersonalization of PD has been introduced. This is necessary in order to exclude "damage to a specific citizen." Roskomnadzor They also note that "any processing of PD of Russian citizens, including using AI, must comply with the requirements of legislation in the field of protecting the rights of personal data subjects."

The National Center for AI Development operates in Russia, and the government provides grants for small and medium-sized businesses implementing artificial intelligence projects. By 2024, it is planned to bring the introduction of AI in the Russian economy to 50%.^[2]

Access to more than 60 standards in the field of artificial intelligence

Rosstandart provided open access to more than 60 standards in the field of artificial intelligence, prepared by the Technical Committee for Standardization No. 164 "Artificial Intelligence," in order to promptly ensure the accelerated pace of development of the artificial intelligence industry in Russia. The corresponding proposal was put forward by Sberbank, which is the competence center of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence." Sberbank announced this on June 14, 2023.

The active development and adoption of artificial intelligence technologies contribute to the achievement of technological independence countries in this area. The President RUSSIAN FEDERATION Vladimir Putin at the end of 2022 announced the need for the mass introduction of artificial intelligence in various spheres of life: "The implementation should cover all industries, economies the social sphere and the public administration system."

The decision to provide open access to standards in the field of artificial intelligence was made by Rosstandart to promote the implementation of the national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence for the period up to 2023, approved by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, one of the main directions of which is the creation of unified standardization systems and conformity assessment of technological solutions developed on the basis of artificial intelligence.

On the official website of the department, access to a number of standards is open, such as:. " Information Technology Artificial intelligence. Process control structure for analysis big data (ISO/IEC 24668:2022), "" Artificial intelligence systems on. automobile transport Highly automated vehicles. Terms and Definitions, "" Artificial Intelligence Systems in Clinical. to medicine Basic Provisions "and others.

The provision of open free access to international and national technical standards will allow assessing the relevance of existing standards, making changes to them if necessary and receiving feedback from the Russian community of artificial intelligence developers.

{{quote 'author = said Anton Shalaev, head of Rosstandart. | The development and subsequent provision of access to standards is aimed at increasing the efficiency of the creation and implementation of artificial intelligence technologies in various sectors of the economy and social sphere. Russia is one of the leading countries in terms of the number of national standards that determine the requirements for the use of such technologies,}}

{{quote 'author = noted Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank. | Sberbank supports Rosstandart's decision to open access to standards in the field of artificial intelligence, because this will help accelerate the development of new technologies in the country. We are confident that the Russian community of developers will show great interest in such an initiative, and we expect constructive feedback from specialists and proposals for updating standards. Bringing standards into the public domain is part of the large-scale work of the state and business, which is aimed at ensuring that, in parallel with the improvement of artificial intelligence systems, regulation develops dynamically, and it must ensure both progress in this vital area of ​ ​ knowledge and consumer safety,}}

In order to systematize work in the field of artificial intelligence, Rosstandart, together with the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, approved a promising standardization program in the priority area "Artificial Intelligence" for the period 2021 − 2024 as part of the implementation of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence" of the national program "Digital Economy of Russia," which contains 217 topics.

EU sets world's first standard for AI systems

In May 2023, the European Parliament (EP) passed the AI Act bill, which became the world's first rules and standard for artificial intelligence.

AI systems with unacceptable levels of risk to human safety will be strictly prohibited. These include systems that use subconscious or targeted manipulative methods that exploit people's vulnerabilities or are used for social scoring (classifying people based on their social behavior, socio-economic status, personal characteristics), the EP said in a statement.

EU sets world's first standard for AI systems

According to the document, the goal of the deputies of the European Union (EU) is to establish the world's first rules for artificial intelligence and put AI systems under the control of people, making them safe, transparent, traceable and non-discriminatory.

In accordance with accepted standards, developers of high-risk artificial intelligence must:

• conduct a risk and compliance assessment;
• register their systems in the European AI database;
• ensure high quality of data used for AI training;
• ensure transparency and awareness of users;
• ensure effective human oversight and the possibility of intervention;
• ensure safety and reliability of AI systems.

As for "low-risk" AI, such as chatbots, its suppliers are obliged to inform users that they are interacting with AI, and not with humans. For generative models, another requirement is added - to inform users that the content is created by a neural network.

In general, companies using various AI tools will have to assess their potential risks in terms of "health, safety, fundamental rights, the environment, democracy and the rule of law," the document says.^[3]

Rosstandart ordered the development of AI standards for medicine, education and transport for 130.4 million rubles

On March 1, 2023, it became known about the tender announced by the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) for the development of artificial intelligence standards in education, medicine and transport. The department is ready to spend 130.4 million rubles on this contract.

According to CNews with reference to the terms of reference for the competition, the winner (it is planned to choose it by March 22, 2023) will have to develop the final version of national AI standards in the field of education and for the use of artificial intelligence systems in road transport (AI systems for managing transport off public roads).

As part of the work, it is required to prepare standards for the use of AI, as well as ethical aspects of the use of AI in healthcare

Also, within the framework of the work, the main provisions and ethical aspects will be prepared when using AI systems in healthcare, radiation diagnostics, for making medical decisions and building forecasts in clinical medicine.

Among other things, the work includes the development and preparation for the approval of national standards, as well as the justification of the principles of consolidation in regulatory and technical documents of the requirements for the creation and operation of AI systems aimed at reducing the possible damage to Russia's security from the use of artificial intelligence.

The purpose of the work is, among other things, to harmonize national standards with international standards and update the fund of standards in the field of artificial intelligence. The work must be completed by November 29, 2024.

By the beginning of March 2023, Russia is implementing a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence. It provides for 24.1 billion rubles of budget funds, as well as 5.1 billion rubles from extrabudgetary sources, the newspaper notes.^[4]

2022

Developed the first GOST in Russia for testing artificial intelligence

In early August 2022, it became known about the creation of the first GOST in Russia for testing artificial intelligence. We are talking about the development of the Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine of the Moscow Department of Health.

According to Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital for social development, by the beginning of August 2022, the document has already been approved and will begin to be applied from September 1, 2022.

Developed GOST for testing artificial intelligence

The new document regulates the requirements for clinical trials of neural networks. According to the developed GOST system, specialists will receive an accurate assessment of whether the product meets the declared characteristics of accuracy, effectiveness and whether it carries risks to the patient's health.

Clinical evaluation involves three stages. First, analytical validation confirms the ability of artificial intelligence systems to accurately, reproducibly, and reliably process data. The evaluation of the clinical link then shows the conformity of the output of such systems to the stated functional purpose. And finally, within the framework of clinical validation, the effectiveness of the system is confirmed - the ability to produce clinically significant results.

According to the Moscow mayor's office, earlier national standards were adopted and entered into force for the introduction of artificial intelligence systems in clinical medicine, they were also developed by metropolitan radiologists.

We have gained vast experience in the field of the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. In March 2022, the development of our doctors in this industry formed the basis of uniform national standards for the use of advanced technologies in medicine. We are moving on - Moscow specialists have developed GOST for testing artificial intelligence systems, - said Rakova, whose words are quoted on the official website of the mayor of Moscow.[5]

Rosstandart approved GOST for AI systems in agriculture

The Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology () Rosstandart approved the national standard of the Russian Federation GOST "Systems () in artificial intelligence AI Agriculture. Requirements to Ensuring Operational Safety Characteristics of Automated agricultural Motion Control Systems. " The document, designed to secure the use of systems with AI in, AGRARIAN AND INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX as well as accelerate the introduction of domestic developments in the industry, was jointly developed (Cognitive Pilot joint venture and) and. "Sberbank" Cognitive Technologies Higher School of Economics (HSE) More. here

2019

3 of the main trends of artificial intelligence in 4 minutes

The fourth issue of the TAdviser podcast was recorded by Svetlana Vronskaya, author of the Analytics Now Telegram channel. Its theme is the main events in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) market that took place in 2019.

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Rosstandart approved the first standards in the field of AI

The Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) approved in December 2019 the first national standards in the field of artificial intelligence - GOST R 58776-2019 "Means of monitoring behavior and predicting people's intentions. Terms and definitions "and GOST R 58777-2019" Air transport. Airports. Inspection equipment. Methodology for determining the quality of recognition of illegal attachments from shadow X-ray images. "

The standard is designed to ensure effective communication of intelligent robotic systems (including unmanned vehicles) with humans. The interaction of intelligent systems consists in predicting each other's intentions and determining further actions based on this forecast. Behaviour prediction can also be used to identify people with criminal intent.

The second adopted standard, GOST R 58777-2019, establishes uniform requirements for systems and algorithms for recognizing illegal contents of luggage and hand luggage from X-ray images. The standard will also improve the reliability of the test results of systems and algorithms.

The standards were developed by St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great and come into force on September 1, 2020.

ISO/IEC experts supported the proposal to develop a standard in Russian

On April 16, 2019, it became known that the ISO/IEC subcommittee on standardization in the field of artificial intelligence supported the proposal of the Technical Committee "Cyber ​ ​ Physical Systems," created on the basis of RVC, to develop the standard "Artificial intelligence. Concepts and terminology "in Russian in addition to the basic English version.

Terminology standard "Artificial intelligence. Concepts and terminology "is fundamental to the entire family of international regulatory and technical documents in the field of artificial intelligence. In addition to terms and definitions, this document contains conceptual approaches and principles for building systems with AI elements, a description of the relationship of AI with other end-to-end technologies, as well as basic principles and framework approaches to the regulatory and technical regulation of artificial intelligence.

Following the meeting of the relevant ISO/IEC subcommittee in Dublin, ISO/IEC experts supported the proposal of the delegation from Russia to synchronously develop the terminology standard in the field of AI not only in English, but also in Russian. The document is expected to be approved in early 2021.

author '= Nikita Utkin, RVC Program Manager, Chairman of the Cyber-Physical Systems TC The development of products and services based on artificial intelligence requires an unambiguous interpretation of the concepts used by all market participants. The terminology standard will unify the "language" in which developers, customers and the professional community communicate, classify such properties of AI-based products as "security," "reproducibility," "reliability" and "privacy." Unified terminology will also become an important factor for the development of artificial intelligence technologies within the framework of the National Technology Initiative - AI algorithms are used by more than 80% of companies in the NTI perimeter. In addition, the ISO/IEC solution will strengthen the authority and expand the influence of Russian experts in the further development of international standards.

During the meeting, ISO/IEC experts also supported the development of the draft international document Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Overview of Computational Approaches for AI Systems, in which Russia acts as co-editor. The document provides an overview of the current state of artificial intelligence systems, describing the main characteristics of systems, algorithms and approaches, as well as examples of specialized applications in the field of AI. The development of this draft document will be carried out by the working group 5 "Computational approaches and computational characteristics of AI systems" (SC 42 Working Group 5 "Computational approaches and computational characteristics of AI systems"), specially created within the framework of the subcommittee.

As part of the work at the international level, delegations from Russia managed to achieve a number of landmark decisions that will have a long-term effect on the development of artificial intelligence technologies in the country. The development of a Russian-language version of the standard, also from such an early phase, is a guarantee of synchronization with the international field, and the development of the ISO/IEC subcommittee and the initiation of international documents with the Russian co-editor is the foundation for further promoting the interests of Russian developers abroad, "commented.

Artificial intelligence technologies are widely in demand in a wide variety of sectors of the digital economy. Among the main factors restraining their full-scale practical use is the underdevelopment of the regulatory framework. At the same time, it is the developed regulatory and technical framework that ensures the specified quality of technology use and the corresponding economic effect.

In the direction of artificial intelligence, the Cyber ​ ​ Physical Systems shopping center based on RVC is developing a number of national standards, the approval of which is scheduled for late 2019 - early 2020. In addition, together with market players, work is underway to form a National Standardization Plan (NPC) for 2020 and beyond. TK "Cyber-Physical Systems" is open to proposals for the development of documents by interested organizations.

2018: Developing standards in quantum communications, AI and smart city

On December 6, 2018, the Cyber ​ ​ Physical Systems Technical Committee based on RVC, together with the SeifNet Regional Engineering Center, began developing a set of standards for the markets of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) and the digital economy. By March 2019, it is planned to develop documents of technical standardization in the field of quantum communications, artificial intelligence and the "smart city," the RVC said. Read more here.

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