I. One day, when I was still drinking whiskey and other similar nasty things, a round man of indeterminate age sat down with me in the Academy cafe, on the corner of Malaya and Bolshaya Bronny. His face looked like a sketch of the Orange house, which was never built by the widow—that is, the then wife—of the mayor of Moscow. E. N. Baturina. It seems to be somewhere in the area of ​​the Park of Culture.

A woman takes a selfie with an artist in a Soviet military uniform during Victory Day celebrations in the center of Moscow Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP The authorities again intend to breed a breed of people who do not experience any other needs other than a sense of camaraderie. But the more Kremlin officials try to play new Bolsheviks, the more clearly the difference in scale is visible. Mikhail Shevchuk - about the new ideological experiment of the Putin regime.

Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers correct dancing humanoid robots at the PLA Armored Forces Engineering Academy in Beijing. Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP When Vladimir Putin again talks about artificial intelligence “in the interests of defense,” it seems clear that this is not about technological progress or concern for security. It's about control over war, information, and what people are allowed to consider reality. And this won't change over time.