# (Draft) Principles of the Law on Artificial Intelligence

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Thailand
- **Instrument type**: Consultation
- **Status**: Under consultation
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Ministry of Digital Economy and Society / Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA)
- **Adopted**: 2025-06-11

## In brief

(Draft) Principles of the Law on Artificial Intelligence is a non-binding consultation of Thailand, issued by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society / Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA). It has been under consultation since 11 June 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below.

## Summary

Draft principles for a Thai AI law released for public hearing by MDES and ETDA. They propose a risk-based structure that distinguishes prohibited and high-risk AI, duties for providers and deployers, human oversight, incident reporting and a regulatory sandbox, while leaving sector regulators to set proportionate rules. The draft merges the 2022 ONDE royal decree draft and the 2023 ETDA promotion act draft.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Ministry of Digital Economy and Society / Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA). Oversight: ETDA under MDES, with sectoral regulators envisaged. Stated purpose: Consolidate earlier draft AI instruments into one risk-based AI law.

## Key dates

2025-06-11: ETDA opens public hearing on draft AI law principles (comments to 24 June 2025)

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0186 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0186; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/thailand-draft-principles-of-the-law-on-artificial-intelligence
- **Official source**: https://www.etda.or.th/th/pr-news/law_ai.aspx
- **Source document**: (Draft) Principles of the Law on Artificial Intelligence
- **Published by**: Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA), Thailand
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **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/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "(Draft) Principles of the Law on Artificial Intelligence" [AIPT-POL-0186, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0186 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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