The EAEU’s AI Strategy

This study is devoted to the consideration of the peculiarities of the policy of the EAEU states in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of global technological confrontation.
Aim. To identify the key directions of the strategy of the EAEU member states in the field of AI, as well as to identify priority policy directions in this area at the union level.
Tasks. To analyze the results of the development of the AI industry in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, to consider the main economic indicators, achievements in the creation of computing infrastructure, the development of their own research and development in the field of AI, to identify the main provisions of the key official documents of the EAEU member states in the field of AI. To identify the main directions of AI policy at the Union level.
Methods. Research of official documents and on the basis of information and analytical technologies, comparative analysis, content analysis, inductive method using approaches of critical geopolitics.
Results. The study showed that the policy of the EAEU countries in the field of AI is characterized by a focus on external technologies and investments, the creation of hotbeds of technological growth, largely due to the efforts of large commercial organizations around which the AI ecosystem is being built, including infrastructure, education and R&D. In conditions of relatively small domestic investments, the implementation of research and development results is largely associated with participation in international outsourcing projects. Against the background of increasingly escalating global technological competition, it is of paramount importance for the EAEU to strengthen its own technological sovereignty and to develop as soon as possible a unified union policy in the field of the most advanced technologies, including in the field of AI, as a conceptual basis for the development of bilateral and multilateral cooperation formats both within the EAEU itself and with other countries.
Conclusions. International cooperation in high-tech spheres is becoming particularly relevant not only in the context of the accelerating transition to a new technological order, but also against the background of escalating trends of decoupling, concentration of technologies, tightening of sanctions policy. For the EAEU, the development of a unified AI policy is of priority importance, which will contribute to the intensification of scientific and technical cooperation, strengthening integration potential and technological sovereignty.

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