Paul Goble
Staunton, June 9 – As artificial intelligence and robotics have advanced in recent years, ever more Russian cities have been focusing on whether they can do away with a sizeable portion of their large and expensive staffs and use robot-bureaucrats instead. Now one of their number, Blagoveshchensk in the Far East, has become the first to do so.
According to officials there, the robot bureaucrats work “48 times more rapidly” than the human ones they have replaced and, while expensive to begin with, cost little to operate and save money over time (nemoskva.net/2025/06/09/rabotaet-v-48-raz-bystree-deneg-ne-prosit-v-blagoveshhenske-zapushhen-pervyj-robot-chinovnik/).
Similar programs are being discussed in a variety of cities across the Russian Federation, programs that currently enjoy the support of the Kremlin (fontanka.ru/2025/04/17/75352451/) although they are likely to anger those made redundant by this change. Indeed, such robot bureaucrats may spark another round of labor unrest in some places.
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