The paper analyzes the priorities and perspectives of artificial intelligence (AI) implementation. The main components of the paper discuss the national AI strategies, the world’s and NATO’s priorities in AI’s implementation, methodological aspects for creating the Ukrainian AI strategy and key priority areas for its implementation. Special attention is paid to perspectives of: a) applied AI’s R& D for medicine and country’s defense; b) AI academic consortia for education; c) the conscience paradigm approach to AI design; d) organoid intelligence; f) polymetric sensors for modern industrial AI systems; g) optic, color and quantum computing for the design of AI systems.