UNITED NATIONS, December 20. /TASS/. Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya criticized the United States’ approaches to regulations of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

"Of course, we understand what the US is guided by when reflecting on the fate of the entire humanity in the era of rapidly developing AI. However, it is now important for the country that initiated today's discussion to clearly realize that if they continue with approaches of the past - imposing rules on others while simultaneously freeing themselves from these rules - they will repeat their historical mistakes made on the path to the development of global cooperation," he told a UN Security Council meeting on AI technologies.

As an example, the diplomat cited US-backed General Assembly Resolution 78/265, which proclaims "a fair, open, inclusive and non-discriminatory business environment," but in practice its authors "continue to unscrupulously get rid of competitors."

"On December 11, the American Bureau of Industry and Security decided to blacklist another four Russian IT companies. One of them is NtechLab, which specializes in facial recognition," Nebenzya said, adding that such measures run counter to the declared principles of non-discrimination and openness.

"If such things go on, progress - as was the case after the agrarian and then the industrial revolutions - will again be achieved only in the ‘flourishing garden’ that will only care about how to extinguish the flames ‘in the jungle,’" the Russian envoy added.