On November 23rd, Anna Abramova, the Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence at MGIMO and a member of the Commission for the Implementation of the AI Ethics Code, participated in the AI Journey conference in a session dedicated to ethics in the field of artificial intelligence.

"Ethics in the field of artificial intelligence is becoming a foundational value around which the further development of the AI industry will be built... and that's why we need forums to discuss existing and future AI-related issues," noted Anna Vladimirovna.
Speakers discussed the national AI Ethics Code and current moral and ethical issues related to artificial intelligence. Among the discussed topics were:

• Transparency and openness of AI
• Trust
• Attribution of responsibility
• Issues of minimizing harm to human life in accidents involving autonomous vehicles
• Bias issues due to the human factor
• "Machine-readability" and "machine-understandability" of ethics

Among the speakers in the session were experts such as Tatiana Matveeva, the Head of the Information and Communication Technologies and Communication Infrastructure Development Department; Andrey Neznamov, the Managing Director of the Center for AI Regulation at Sberbank; Sergey Nakvasin, the Director of the National Center for AI Development under the Government of the Russian Federation; Yuri Lindre, an expert on international AI regulation and cross-cutting technologies at Skoltech and the Executive Secretary of the AI Committee at the UNESCO Commission of the Russian Federation.