Dmitriy Kobitskiy: Use of AI by Terrorists Requires Adoption of Legislative Measures to Counteract

Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council Dmitriy Kobitskiy called on parliamentarians to pay attention to the problem of the increasingly active use of AI technologies for terrorist purposes, which threaten national, regional and global security, may exacerbate existing conflicts and introduce new challenges.

The issue requires urgent legislative and political measures, including at the international level, Dmitriy Kobitskiy said, speaking at a meeting of the geopolitical group of the Interparliamentary Union “Eurasia” in Tashkent, where the 150^th IPU Assembly kicks off today.

The Secretary General said that the problem of using AI will be discussed in detail at the international conference “Legislative regulation of measures to counter the use of artificial intelligence and other new technologies for terrorist activities.” The conference will be held on 17 April in St. Petersburg. The IPA CIS will hold it jointly with the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Parliamentarians, as well as experts from relevant UN agencies and CIS sectoral cooperation bodies, will discuss how to regulate such technologies to prevent their malicious use, and how to apply AI in counterterrorism operations.

Various legislative initiatives in this area will also be discussed at the conference. This includes the draft Model Law on Countering the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Terrorist and Extremist Purposes, being developed by the IPA CIS.

Several times, the relevant committees at the last Assembly of the IPA CIS considered the issue of artificial intelligence. “However, the topic and subject of the discussion were reduced to its use in armed conflicts, and aspects of the fight against terrorism were not taken into account,” Dmitriy Kobitskiy emphasized and invited the Eurasia group to pay attention to these issues and to speak with a unified position when considering them.

According to him, the new challenges facing the legislators of our countries also provide new opportunities, while requiring broad international cooperation.

One of these challenges is the need to ensure security in the context of the development and spread of new technologies.

The Group “Eurasia” was established in 1998 at the 100^th IPU Conference in Moscow on the initiative of the IPA CIS. It includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Since 2024, the IPA CIS has been an associate member of the geopolitical group.