# New Zealand's Strategy for Artificial Intelligence: Investing with Confidence

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: New Zealand
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
- **Adopted**: 2025-07-08

## In brief

New Zealand AI Strategy (2025) is a non-binding national strategy of New Zealand, issued by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. It was adopted on 8 July 2025. Government programme; no obligations on private organisations. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

Published in July 2025, the strategy aims to lift AI adoption by businesses, especially small and medium enterprises, and the public sector, by reducing barriers, providing clear guidance (Responsible AI Guidance for Businesses), building skills and pursuing a light-touch, proportionate regulatory approach that relies on existing law and international alignment (OECD principles). It rules out a standalone AI act for now.

## Scope

Government programme; no obligations on private organisations.

## Notes on dates

Dates are taken from the linked official source; a reviewer should confirm in-force and application dates before relying on them.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0143 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0143; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/new-zealand-ai-strategy-2025
- **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**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-11-04
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "New Zealand's Strategy for Artificial Intelligence: Investing with Confidence" [AIPT-POL-0143, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0143 (accessed 4 November 2026).

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