# Scottish AI Register

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Scotland (United Kingdom)
- **Instrument type**: Policy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Scottish Government

## In brief

Scottish AI Register is a non-binding policy of Scotland (United Kingdom), issued by Scottish Government. Its current status is adopted. AI systems used or developed by Scottish public bodies. A public register of AI systems in use or in development in the Scottish public sector.

## Summary

A public register of AI systems in use or in development in the Scottish public sector. The government announced in March 2024 that registration would become mandatory, starting with its own departments, but a 2025 freedom-of-information response describes the register as voluntary with an expectation that public bodies use it.

## Scope

AI systems used or developed by Scottish public bodies.

## Who it applies to

Scottish public sector bodies.

## Key dates

Launched March 2023; mandatory registration announced 28 March 2024.

## Notes on dates

Recorded as voluntary: the 2024 announcement and a 13 August 2025 FOI response differ on whether registration is mandatory.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0198 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0198; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-scottish-ai-register
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.scot/news/increasing-ai-transparency/
- **Source document**: Increasing AI transparency
- **Published by**: Scottish Government
- **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). "Scottish AI Register" [AIPT-POL-0198, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0198 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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