{"id":173162,"date":"2025-09-27T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173162\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:21:10","slug":"senior-russian-lawmaker-rejects-idea-of-ai-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173162\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Russian Lawmaker Rejects Idea of AI Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian lower-house State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kommersant\/91897\" rel=\"nofollow\"> shot down<\/a> the idea that artificial intelligence could replace members of parliament, arguing that machines lack \u201cconscience and responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volodin, who has long<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbth.com\/science_and_tech\/2017\/02\/14\/russian-government-plans-robot-laws_701886\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> sought<\/a> a legislative framework on robot-human relations, used a technical glitch involving the Duma\u2019s electronic system to rail against AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI has no conscience,\u201d Volodin said during Thursday\u2019s session, using a Russian phrase that can also mean \u201cshameless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must not delegate decisions that require conscience and responsibility to neural networks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Volodin made his remarks a week after Albania announced that the world\u2019s first AI-generated minister, \u201cDiella,\u201d would take charge of a new public contracts portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>His assertion contrasts with other Russian state officials and executives who have signaled more openness toward AI.<\/p>\n<p>Digital Minister Maksut Shadayev<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moscowtimes.ru\/2025\/04\/17\/iskusstvennyy-intellekt-mozhet-zamenit-polovinu-chinovnikov-glava-mintsifry-rf-a161291\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> suggested<\/a> this spring that AI could replace half of\u00a0\u201csimple and routine\u201d Russian officials, but ruled out similar replacements for doctors and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Sberbank CEO German Gref in 2023\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moscowtimes.ru\/2023\/06\/15\/gref-predlozhil-zamenit-chinovnikov-iskusstvennim-intellektom-a46210\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> AI could eradicate bribery in public administration, though he cautioned that fully automated governance is unrealistic due to social and emotional factors.<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 poll<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/over-half-of-russians-back-replacing-deputies-with-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> found<\/a> a majority of Russians supporting the idea of replacing lawmakers with AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian lower-house State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has shot down the idea that artificial intelligence could replace members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,30365,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-173162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-state-duma","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}