# Bhutan

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Bhutan
- **ISO code**: BT
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / South Asia

## In brief

Bhutan has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. Instruments on record: Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (2025, strategy, adopted). A national strategy framed around the vision of AI rooted in Gross National Happiness. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

A national strategy framed around the vision of AI rooted in Gross National Happiness.

## Regulatory status

Instruments on record: Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (2025, strategy, adopted). Each is linked to its official source; human verification pending.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025.

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.

## Official sources

- Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025) — GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan — https://tech.gov.bt/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/National-AI-Strategy-2025.pdf

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/bhutan-bhutan-national-ai-strategy-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/bhutan-bhutan-national-ai-strategy-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/bhutan
- **Official source**: https://tech.gov.bt/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/National-AI-Strategy-2025.pdf
- **Source document**: Bhutan National AI Strategy 2025 (NAIS 2025)
- **Published by**: GovTech Agency, Royal Government of Bhutan
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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