Federal law No 123-FZ1 sets a legal framework in Moscow for the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The experimental legal framework is established for five years starting from 1 July 2020.
The law sets out goals, objectives, and main principles of establishing the experimental legal framework and regulates relations arising therein. The main objective of the experiment — examine how the AI technologies work, which sectors of the economy and social relations require its` implementation. After the experiment, decision on further amendments to the legislation will be made.
Legal entities and sole proprietors registered in Moscow, which do business on development, creation, implementation, sale, and distribution of the AI technologies can be the participants of the experiment. The status of the participant is acquired by inclusion to a special register. Moreover, the participants will obtain and process anonymous data of the Moscow city residents.
A coordinating council will be established for monitoring the legal framework of the experiment. At the end of the experiment, the coordinating council will have to submit to the Russian Government the proposals on benefits or disadvantages of amending the legislation.
The authors of the law consider the experiment encouraging to develop and implement new technologies and build an effective legal framework for anonymous data turnaround.
The implementation of AI technologies may help ensure economic impact in certain sectors, such as transport and healthcare. Nevertheless, a large amount of anonymous data will be accumulated during the experiment. It requires additional guarantees for citizens while processing this information, as well as additional obligations for the experiment participants.
More detailed regulation of the experimental regime, including additional measures ensuring the rights of the citizens, should be adopted soon.
1 Federal law from 24.04.2020 No 123-FZ “On the experiment to establish special regulation to create the necessary conditions to develop and implement artificial intelligence technology in Moscow, a constituent entity of the Russian Federation and a city of federal importance, and amending articles 6 and 10 of the Federal law “On personal data”