MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/. Humanity will be able to cope with the challenges posed by AI if it introduces supranational control over its military and strategic-level development, Gennady Lepeshko, head of the Meeting of Chairpersons of Defense Committees of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Parliaments, said at the International Collective Security Forum in Moscow.
"Will we be able to cope with these threats? I must say that, in my opinion, humanity probably does not have a definitive answer. The outcome of this confrontation will depend on which prevails in the coming years--international solidarity in the face of an existential threat or geopolitical selfishness and an arms race," he said.
Lepeshko believes that "humanity will prevail if it can place the development of military-and strategic-level artificial intelligence under strict supranational control." "Like with the IAEA for nuclear energy. And this should be enshrined at the level of the UN, BRICS, and regional alliances, including the CSTO," he added.
"If, however, artificial intelligence remains an uncontrolled tool in the geopolitical struggle, the risks of a fatal error will become critical," the official said.
Lepeshko, who is also chairman of the Belarusian Lower House’s Standing Committee on National Security, noted that Belarus, just like Russia, is making efforts to combat the illegal use of AI. "Sovereign models and datasets, and the transition by government agencies and defense departments - as is already being done in the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation - to neural networks isolated from the external Internet and trained on verified government data, in order to prevent espionage," he cited an example.