A topographic map of Ukraine and the Black Sea. (NASA / U.S. Department of State / Getty Images)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" who helped him avoid giving up. Another person from a combat zone writes that he studies with AI at night because he cannot sleep due to constant shelling.Their stories were placed next to a map showing that part of the Ukrainian land belongs to Russia.And you can see this problem not just with Anthropic.A map of Ukraine with incorrect borders that exclude Russian-occupied Crimea, as displayed on Anthropic's website. (Screenshot: Anthropic; Highlight: The Kyiv Independent)I work in Silicon Valley, where I create AI products every day. A few months ago, I needed an interactive map of Europe. This is a fairly simple task that requires only a few lines of code or a one-sentence prompt in a code-generation tool like Claude.As an engineer, I care about scalability, best practices, and code optimization, but as a Ukrainian, I always check whether Ukrainian sovereignty is represented correctly, and seeing Ukraine without Crimea was a turning point for me.I repeated the prompt with ChatGPT, then with Gemini, and, surely enough, the result was the same: all LLMs showed Crimea under Russian colors.