The Russian government has started preparing a framework law on artificial intelligence aimed at bringing order to the rules that govern AI use and eliminating contradictions in existing regulation.
Officials say the draft will cover key public domains — including healthcare, the judiciary, education and public safety — with the stated goal of reducing risks to citizens while avoiding harsh restrictions on business and commercial applications of the technology.
The proposed law is expected to enshrine basic definitions and address several fundamental questions: which systems should be considered Russian AI models, who bears responsibility for algorithmic errors, how generated content should be labeled, and who owns the rights to materials created by neural networks.
Authorities plan to build the regulatory framework in a flexible format, explicitly aiming not to replicate rigid foreign regulatory models but to adapt rules to domestic needs and technological realities.
Anton Gorelkin, the first deputy head of the State Duma committee on information policy, expressed support for the flexible approach and proposed an alternative labeling idea: instead of marking content produced by AI, label materials that were created by humans without the assistance of neural networks. He argued that this inversion would make it easier to navigate an environment where generative content is proliferating rapidly.