# Kazakhstan

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Kazakhstan
- **ISO code**: KZ
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Central Asia

## In brief

Kazakhstan has 2 recorded AI policy instruments, 1 of them binding. Law on AI adopted (2025); AI development concept 2024–2029 as policy. Regulators include Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Kazakhstan adopted a Law on Artificial Intelligence in November 2025, the first dedicated AI law in Central Asia, setting principles, a risk-based classification, obligations for owners and operators of AI systems, transparency for AI-generated content and a national AI platform, implemented by the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development. It follows the Concept for AI development 2024–2029 (July 2024).

## Regulatory status

Law on AI adopted (2025); AI development concept 2024–2029 as policy.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Law on Artificial Intelligence (2025). Strategy or guidance: Concept for AI development 2024–2029.

## Regulators

- Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development — AI policy and regulation lead — https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mdai

## 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.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan — Government of Kazakhstan — https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mdai

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (2)

- **Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Artificial Intelligence" (signed November 2025)** — Act / statute, Adopted, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/kazakhstan-law-on-artificial-intelligence-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/kazakhstan-law-on-artificial-intelligence-2025.md
- **Концепция развития искусственного интеллекта на 2024–2029 годы** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/kazakhstan-ai-development-concept-2024-2029
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/kazakhstan-ai-development-concept-2024-2029.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/kazakhstan
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mdai
- **Source document**: Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- **Published by**: Government of Kazakhstan
- **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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