# Tamil Nadu Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Policy 2020

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Tamil Nadu (India)
- **Instrument type**: Policy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Information Technology Department, Government of Tamil Nadu
- **Adopted**: 2020-09-18

## In brief

The Tamil Nadu Safe and Ethical AI Policy 2020 is a non-binding policy of Tamil Nadu (India), issued by the Information Technology Department, Government of Tamil Nadu. It was adopted on 18 September 2020. Tamil Nadu government departments; implemented through the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency.

## Summary

Recommends a six-dimension framework (TAM-DEF: transparency and audit, accountability and legal issues, misuse protection, digital divide and data deficit, ethics and fairness, equity) and a DEEP-MAX scorecard for deploying AI in government, with AI procurement guidelines.

## Scope

Tamil Nadu government departments; implemented through the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency.

## Who it applies to

Tamil Nadu government departments and their AI suppliers.

## Key dates

Approved by G.O. (Ms) No. 24 of the IT Department, dated 18 September 2020.

## Notes on dates

Dates as stated in search extracts of the official source; confirm against it.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0091 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0091; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/in-tamil-nadu-safe-and-ethical-ai-policy-2020
- **Official source**: https://kygcms.tn.gov.in/cms_migrated/document/GO/it_e_24_2020.pdf
- **Source document**: G.O. (Ms) No. 24, IT Department, 18 September 2020
- **Published by**: Government of Tamil Nadu
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-21
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Tamil Nadu Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence Policy 2020" [AIPT-POL-0091, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0091 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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