Russia's AI challenge

Russia is staking its future on Artificial Intelligence as President Vladimir Putin puts the technology at the heart of the nation's digital transformation. With the US, China and Europe all investing heavily in AI, the scene is set for a global battle for supremacy. As Putin has said, the nation that leads in AI "will be ruler of the world." In a speech to the AI Journey Conference 2020 held in Moscow in December, Putin told 10,000 online delegates that AI is "one of the greatest technologies ever created by humanity." He promised that AI would become deeply embedded into the nation's infrastructure as part of a new Russian revolution.