Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation (from a speech at the 10th AI Journey, an Annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, November 19, 2025)
“It’s obviously, that generative AI is becoming a core and strategic technology. Major companies and leading countries compete to develop proprietary fundamental language models <…> According to various estimations, the development of artificial intelligence
is variously estimated to be one of the largest technological projects in human history.
<...> These models generate enormous volumes of new data and are becoming one
of the key instruments for information dissemination. As such, they have the capacity
to influence people’s values and worldviews, shaping the semantic environment of entire nations and, ultimately, humanity as a whole...”