# Taiwan

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Taiwan
- **ISO code**: TW
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Eastern Asia

## In brief

Taiwan has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, 1 of them binding. AI Basic Act adopted by the Executive Yuan (2024) and under legislative process; sector guidance from financial regulators. Regulators include National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Ministry of Digital Affairs (moda), Personal Data Protection Commission (preparatory office).

## Overview

Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved a draft Artificial Intelligence Basic Act in July 2024 setting principles (sustainability, human autonomy, privacy, security, transparency, fairness, accountability) and tasking the National Science and Technology Council to lead, with a risk-classification framework and sector regulation to follow; the Legislative Yuan's consideration continued into 2025. The Personal Data Protection Act and its new independent commission apply, and the Financial Supervisory Commission issued generative-AI guidelines for the financial sector.

## Regulatory status

AI Basic Act adopted by the Executive Yuan (2024) and under legislative process; sector guidance from financial regulators.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Artificial Intelligence Basic Act (draft). Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) — Lead agency for the AI Basic Act — https://www.nstc.gov.tw/
- Ministry of Digital Affairs (moda) — AI evaluation centre and digital policy — https://moda.gov.tw/en/
- Personal Data Protection Commission (preparatory office) — Data-protection supervision — https://www.pdpc.gov.tw/

## 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

- National Science and Technology Council: AI Basic Act — NSTC — https://www.nstc.gov.tw/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **人工智慧基本法 (Artificial Intelligence Basic Act) – draft approved by the Executive Yuan, July 2024** — Bill, Proposed, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/taiwan-artificial-intelligence-basic-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/taiwan-artificial-intelligence-basic-act.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/taiwan
- **Official source**: https://www.nstc.gov.tw/
- **Source document**: National Science and Technology Council: AI Basic Act
- **Published by**: NSTC
- **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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