Demand for AI directors in Russia has almost tripled

In Russia, the need for AI directors has increased two to three times in recent months, whereas previously only the largest corporations were interested in such personnel, now medium-sized businesses have joined the search for them, MWS AI told Izvestia.

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"The Director of Artificial Intelligence plays a key role: he is responsible for the development and implementation of AI assistants, data management, compliance with regulatory requirements and building communication between IT and business," the company explained.

An interlocutor of Izvestia in one of the corporations said that the monthly income of an AI director in large companies varies from 500 thousand to 1 million rubles. The final amount depends on the industry, the scale of the company and the level of ambitions in the field of artificial intelligence implementation.

Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, federal coordinator of the Digital Russia party project, noted that the AI director is a link between developers and business, a specialist who forms a strategy for implementing AI throughout the organization, assesses risks, deals with ethical aspects and monitors effectiveness. he noted.

It can be expected that in the next year or two, the position of AI director will become as standard as the director of digital transformation or the director of IT. Especially against the background of the rapid growth of regulatory attention to AI, we need a specialist who can not only develop technologies, but also ensure compliance with new requirements and standards, the deputy noted.

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