Sberbank will use the labor of prisoners to train neural networks

Sberbank's main partner in this direction will be the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). Bank

will provide jobs to convicts as correctional labor - they will work in a separate office on computers without the Internet and access to the bank’s internal files.

It is planned that the convicts will be transferred toelectronic format handwritten texts - in the future, this data will be used to train artificial intelligence to recognize handwritten text. Materials with which convicts will work will not contain personal data, banking or other secrets.

Convicts will receive the minimum permittedsalary for his work in the amount of 12 130 rubles. Taxes, utility bills and deductions by court order will be deducted from it. Sberbank notes that convicts will be paid bonuses for good work.

Now the system is being tested in Novosibirsk, according to the results of the experiment, Sberbank and the Federal Penitentiary Service will decide whether to scale this project.

Sberbank has long been engaged in the development of devices based on neural networks and artificial intelligence. Recently, the bank introduced a virtual TV presenter Elena, who can lead news stories.

Recently it became known that the introductionartificial intelligence in the operational work of Sberbank allowed the company to reduce to 70% of middle managers, namely by 14 thousand people. Now the total number of employees in the bank has decreased to 296 thousand employees. It is planned that by 2025 their number will decrease to 150 thousand people.