Principles

At Yandex AI we believe in building and disseminating AI in a responsible way that cultivates trust in the technology shaping our future.

Yandex is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine. In addition to search technology, we provide user-centric products and services based on the latest innovations in information retrieval, machine learning and machine intelligence to a worldwide customer audience on all digital platforms and devices.

Our goal is to empower our teams and the entire global AI community with the tools and resources they need to positively advance AI and its applications.

We created the following ethical guidelines to ensure that all of our work in AI – from research to end-products – is built on a responsible and trustworthy foundation.

We aim to develop AI algorithms that can be trusted to make decisions on their own.
We make every effort to develop AI algorithms whose decision-making is safe, predictable and reproducible.
We value diversity of data, diversity of experience and diversity of opinion. The AI technologies that we create are trained on a variety of data from a large number of sources.
We do our best to ensure that our technologies avoid bias and reflect the reality as fairly, completely and accurately as possible.
We create algorithms based on principles that are transparent and can be clearly explained.
We take full responsibility for the technologies that we create. Each of our technological solutions undergoes rigorous testing before launch. We continue to monitor the work of our technologies and their impact throughout their lifecycle and respond immediately to any threat or incident.
We appreciate the importance of our technological contribution and its significance for a large number of people. All our systems and processes are scrupulously designed to comply with our own, as well as independent, safety standards. Any identified problems are immediately addressed.
We increase AI accessibility by sharing our products and technologies in the open source domain, as well as offering learning opportunities for both specialists and beginners in AI.
We deliver and encourage high-quality AI research and innovations for the benefit of the local and global communities.
We share clear and understandable explanations of our work in AI and maintain feedback opportunities for the public.