Russia drafted plans for AI that could block 95% of VPNs — but the idea has quietly vanished from its national…
- A draft of Russia's national AI plan proposed using AI to analyze 70% of blocked VPN services and lift blocking effectiveness to 95%
- The Digital Development Ministry says the measure is absent from the current draft, but Roskomnadzor's separately budgeted and arguably crucial ML filtering project remains
- The 95% is an effectiveness target, not accuracy, and sources expect AI to raise false positives, with corporate VPN, cloud and voice traffic most exposed
Russia's Digital Development Ministry considered using artificial intelligence to push the effectiveness of its VPN blocking to 95%, according to a front-page report in Kommersant.
The measure appeared in a draft of the country's national plan for implementing AI through 2030; the ministry now says it is not in the current version.
This isn't the first time such a move has been reported, but some earlier coverage might have been overzealous, to say the least,when it...
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