Russia deploys AI to monitor ‘death groups’ on social networks

In Saint Petersburg, developers have created an AI-powered program to protect children online. This was reported by ТАСС.

According to the press service of the office of the vice-governor of Saint Petersburg, Stanislav Kazarin, this is the first software suite in the country for social-media analytics that identifies users of ‘death groups’ or adolescents with suicidal tendencies.

The program includes monitoring, analysis and identification of negative factors in the digital environment affecting young people. It identifies depressive content using artificial intelligence, which pre-processes and ranks information. This enables assessing the level of suicidal risk on the internet and in the social networks popular among children and adolescents.

Officials say that timely identification of warning signals will enable prompt responses, for example by blocking content or providing psychological help in acute cases.

The software suite has undergone the necessary testing, the press service said. In addition, the developers of the system have created a roadmap for further development and implementation of the project.

According to the plan, the program will be piloted in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, and then rolled out nationwide across the Russian Federation.

Earlier in June, it was reported that the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation is developing an artificial intelligence system for detecting cartel agreements.

In May, Roskomnadzor said that it uses AI to locate prohibited information on the internet.

In late April, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation announced plans to create an AI Directorate within the agency.

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