# New Zealand publishes its first national AI strategy and rules out a standalone AI act

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2025-07-08
- **Jurisdiction**: New Zealand
- **Instrument**: New Zealand's Strategy for Artificial Intelligence: Investing with Confidence
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## What changed

MBIE released the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence and Responsible AI Guidance for Businesses, opting for a light-touch approach based on existing law and OECD principles.

## What it means in practice

Businesses in New Zealand should apply the responsible-AI guidance and privacy law; no new AI statute is planned.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2025-07-08-new-zealand-ai-strategy
- **Official source**: https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/business/support-for-business/artificial-intelligence-strategy
- **Source document**: New Zealand's Strategy for Artificial Intelligence
- **Published by**: MBIE
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: AI Policy Tracker (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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