Russia’s Dmitriev says AI development can’t be slowed: ‘You can’t put the genie back in the bottle’

13 Sep 2026 — Kirill Dmitriev (RFPI head / presidential special representative) told RIA Novosti AI development can’t be slowed despite industry leaders’ safety calls for pacing.

13 Sep 2026: RIA Novosti published “Дмитриев: нельзя загнать джина обратно в бутылку, развитие ИИ нельзя замедлить.” Kirill Dmitriev — identified on the page as presidential special representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries, and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI) — said AI development cannot be slowed despite calls from industry leaders. That dated RIA dispatch, Moscow dateline, is the filing event. This is Dmitriev’s comment, not a Kremlin decree and not a statement in Putin’s name.

Dmitriev, as quoted by RIA: «Нельзя загнать джина обратно в бутылку» — “You can’t put the genie back in the bottle.” RIA says he wrote the line.

RIA writes that Dmitriev was commenting on a Financial Times report that OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei had called for slowing model development on safety grounds. That grouping and the “slow the models” frame are RIA’s summary of FT — this desk did not independently read the FT piece. Amodei’s 12 Sep “We Must Pace the Frontier” essay is already filed separately from his own page.

RIA’s same dispatch also recaps Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation and Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger’s personal ~10% extinction-in-a-decade estimate. Those items are already filed from other primaries; they are RIA’s surrounding copy, not new facts here.

While Western lab CEOs debate pacing, a senior Russian AI/investment voice says restraint isn’t available — race framing from the other side of the board.