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Ivan Dobrovolsky

Ivan Dobrovolsky is a Staff Software Engineer based in California, specializing in building large-scale AI systems. He holds an MS in AI & ML Engineering and is actively engaged in research spanning agentic architectures, multilingual NLP, and AI safety.

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Why AI believes Crimea is Russian — and what to do about it

by Ivan Dobrovolsky
Not so long ago, Anthropic, one of the leaders in the global AI market and the creator of Claude, published its largest study on what people expect from AI. It is based on 80,000 conversations across 159 countries, with a world map as the central element. One detail that caught my eye was that it showed Ukraine without Crimea. Among the respondents to its survey were many Ukrainian voices. For example, a soldier said that in the most difficult moments of his service, it was his "AI friends" wh