In the field of technology regulation, especially with emerging technologies like AI, there are often numerous requirements, norms, and semantic constructs that have been introduced “by analogy” or “historically,” often without a genuine understanding of the capabilities of the regulated technologies, the intricacies of their development, and the dynamics of…

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, over 40 startups have approached me seeking investment, with the aim of solving military problems. Despite my interest in supporting my homeland, I have only invested in one of these startups. The reason being that investing in startups that are likely to fail…

Originally the article was published @ European AI Alliance. — Since the beginning of the war, I have often been asked what The Expert Committee on Artificial Intelligence is doing now. Are we still doing policy-making? Certainly not. Since the committee is a social institution, the same thing happened to it as to the rest of the other healthy structures during the war — it was urgently reorganized and focused on solving the main problem of the country.

To launch an important initiative, in September — October 2022 I interviewed 15 independent development teams that make open source products for Ukraine’s victory in the war. During the research, I came up with interesting findings and conclusions that I want to share with you in this post. General observations: …

Ahead of the mass production of HMDs I’m pleased to see the consolidation of old terms (AR, VR, AR Cloud, XR, virtual games etc.) into one — Metaverse. …

In recent years, Ukraine’s world-class artificial intelligence (AI) industry has become something of a calling card for the country’s booming tech sector. Billion dollar Ukrainian startups including Grammarly and GitLab have managed to establish a global presence while maintaining AI offices in Ukraine. …

Slides from my recent talk “#DeepFakes: pro & contra of democratic order”: - Is it possible to detect DeepFakes? - Is it possible to control DeepFakes? - How will DeepFakes and synthetic content affect elections, society, government? - What is the impact on ethics, social norms in 1–2–5–10 years?

Let’s figure out how technologies are going to change the nature of power and of political leverage in the coming period of 3 to 7 years. Today, we are getting more and more “AI advocates” blow their trumpets from all over about the coming era of cyberpunk and singularity. Yet, if you look around you see that we are far from living in the world featured in Matrix, Back to the Future, or Star Wars.

As my main work is related to AI and brains for robots, (Augmented Pixels, Inc) and I write in a blog about AI use cases in different industries(AI.Business), some big corporations involved in traditional industries ask me to help them solve problems with their AI research & development. Usually, these…