Russian authorities outlined the conditions for granting access to data, including secret data, for developers of AI systems. This was reported by Interfax.
A draft concept from the Ministry of Digital Development envisages the creation of state data-set operators, to be defined by the government and the federal subjects.
Datasets will be collected on an application basis: the ministry says the cost of creating a single dataset will be no less than 1 million rubles.
Operators will determine the data’s composition and source, anonymise the information, and provide access to the datasets according to the level of security.
There are three data classes in total:
- publicly accessible;
- anonymised confidential data, containing banking, tax, medical, and other secrets;
- containing state secrets.
Only accredited developers will be able to work with datasets from the second and third classes. Data containing state secrets may be used by algorithm developers only on the operators’ infrastructure, with no possibility to download.
According to Andrey Nikulichyev, adviser to the general director of the Centre for Expertise and Coordination of Informatisation at the Ministry of Digital Development, the question of access to the third class of data is still under discussion:
We must know clearly who these data sets are for, how they will be used, and what socio-economic impact they will bring.
Under the ministry’s plans, developers will gain access to open data in 2022, to anonymised confidential data in 2023, and to data containing state secrets in 2024.
To implement the concept, amendments will be required to the laws ‘On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection’, ‘On Personal Data’, and ‘On Ensuring Access to Information on the Activities of State Bodies and Local Self-Government Bodies’.
In May, the Ministry of Digital Development proposed selling access to state data to neural-network developers.
In October, the Government of the Russian Federation and the largest Russian companies signed Code of Artificial Intelligence, governing the ethical and moral aspects of using the technology.
In November, Russia announced a tender to create an AI platform that could conduct a psychoanalysis of a persons personality from social media posts.
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