In our country, research in the field of AI is carried out constantly as part of government programmes. They concern a wide variety of areas, from medicine to mechanical engineering. Biologists use AI to form new drugs and new compounds. In mechanical engineering, it is used to facilitate the design of new vehicles. In medicine, it is used to help diagnose and predict the development of diseases.

Diagnosis of diseases with the help of AI facilitates the work of doctors. This topic is being dealt with in the Laboratory of Biomedical Image Analysis of the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences.

‘’There's a large arsenal of equipment that takes biomedical images. We need to extract a lot of quantitative data from them, information that will help the doctor make a decision. Naturally, it is out of the question that a computer will automatically make a diagnosis. But it can support the diagnostic process, especially with the help of modern AI tools. This is a very important task, and we are solving it,’ said Vasily Kovalev, a leading researcher at the laboratory. Thus, AI methods help to conduct analyses, but it is the doctor of the relevant profile who makes the diagnosis and takes the final decision.

In the world, more and more attention is being paid not only to the topic of AI, but also to related organisational and strategic issues. Russia has adopted a national AI development strategy for the period until 2030. The International Alliance in the field of AI has been established and the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has joined it.

In April 2025, the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly adopted a model law on AI technologies. It was developed by scientists of the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences together with interested organisations of Belarus. Now the issue of regulating AI directly in our country is on the agenda.

‘We are now putting this issue at the top of the agenda. Having AI technologies and applying them correctly are complementary things. Because, apart from the positive aspects, there are a certain number of minuses, threats that AI carries with it. Among the most common ones is phone fraud, because of which people can lose their money,’ said Sergei Kruglikov, Director General of the Joint Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

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