Maria Zakharova's article on AI and colonialism is very timely and accurate
Alexander Dugin
AGDchan (Telegram)
AI is not universal. It was created in the West and represents a structure of Western thinking, namely a colonial network imposed on all societies, subordinating them to Western meanings, goals, and procedures. AI has a civilizational identity. And it is Western. We will not be able to create Russian AI until we have clarity about Russian civilizational identity. Gigachat and other Russian creations are import substitutes, simply copied from ChatGPT with a few additional restrictions to please the authorities.
Zakharova raised an important topic: the sovereignty of AI. But she immediately reveals another topic about the sovereignty of intelligence in general, about Russian sovereignty of spirit and mind. It is impossible to talk seriously about AI without an equally serious conversation about Intelligence.
For three hundred years, we have been living in an intellectual context shaped by the West. This is reflected in our science, our politics, our culture, our economy, and our technology. It is a borrowed life. We are not living our own lives. The West is not just entering us now, along with AI, which Zakharova correctly interprets as imperialism. The West entered us long ago as I. We are not living in our minds. Considering Russia to be part of Western civilization, which began not with the Bolsheviks but with Peter, we have lost our Russian meanings and have no intention of restoring them. Everything we understand by science, politics, culture, and art is Western, imported, and copied. "Creative" development comes from the fact that we only partially understand borrowing, because we do not understand the contexts of origin; it is not our experience. Russia, since Peter, is a pseudomorph, an archaeo-modern, a cargo cult.
But that was not all. There were Slavophiles and Eurasianists, there was John of Kronstadt and Anthony (Khrapovitsky), there were Tikhomirov and Solonevich, there was Florensky with his Christian physics and S. Bulgakov with his Christian economics. And they made desperate attempts to make Russia Russian again, to de-Westernize the Russian consciousness. Each of their steps was worth its weight in gold for a civilization whose identity had been stolen and replaced with something foreign.
In order to approach the problem of Russian AI, even to simply frame it correctly, it is necessary to first break through to Russian I, to decolonize our consciousness. Today, virtually all institutions responsible for the humanitarian paradigm are firmly captured by Westernism, or worse, Western universalism, either in its liberal version or in its inertial communist version. From the Academy of Sciences to schools. And where there are timid attempts at import substitution, they do not go any further: Alice, whose Crimea is it? And they don't even go that far. Dig a little deeper, and you'll find pure gender progress.
Musk faced this problem when he set out to create an illiberal AI—an anti-woke AI. He discovered that it was not enough to teach Grok to present just one position (the liberal globalist position in the spirit of Soros and his extreme censorship), but several (including a conservative one). The core of AI remains structured by liberal attitudes. When Musk lifted a number of restrictions, Grok 4 began to speak like Hitler. Musk immediately reversed everything. He was merely trying to shift the emphasis within the framework of Western ideology. And this is what he encountered. We, on the other hand, face a much more difficult task to avoid colonization (M. Zakharova). We are not talking about a cosmetic correction of the Western paradigm, but about its dismantling and the construction of a sovereign Russian AI based on a sovereign Russian I.
Thank God that the President now recognizes this problem, the Presidential Administration has gotten involved, and the Ministry of Science and Education is taking specific, targeted, and systematic action. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which actively promotes multipolarity, has also begun to prioritize this issue.
This is wonderful. But this is not even the beginning; it is preparation for the beginning, the zero cycle.
Incidentally, there have not been many moments in our history when we seriously thought about our civilizational identity: the 15th-17th centuries (Moscow as the Third Rome), the Slavophiles in the 19th century, the early 20th century (the Silver Age, Blok, Klyuev), and in emigration. And now.
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