Kazakhstan Enacts Comprehensive AI Law to Boost Innovation and Ensure Safety

November 17, 2025
Kazakhstan Enacts Comprehensive AI Law to Boost Innovation and Ensure Safety
  • Kazakhstan's new AI law prioritizes safety, transparency, fairness, explainability, data privacy, and human well-being, while prohibiting AI systems that manipulate users or illegally process personal data.

  • The law bans AI that can manipulate or subliminally influence people and restricts improper collection or processing of personal data to protect public order and individual rights.

  • Amendments strengthen information security requirements, and the text will be publicized in the press to ensure accessible understanding.

  • A second block of amendments aligns related laws with the AI framework and addresses broader digitalization and regulatory matters, complementing an initial alignment phase.

  • Domestic retailers must record transactions with cash registers using identification methods to enhance transaction traceability and information security, improving the marking of goods.

  • Regulations require owners and operators to manage AI-related risks, ensure safety and reliability, and provide user support.

  • AI-generated goods, services, and works must carry mandatory labeling to inform the public and raise transparency.

  • Amendments expand the regulation of unsecured digital assets beyond the Astana International Financial Centre and tighten personal data processing controls, including purpose-limited consent periods.

  • The legislation aims to attract international investment and spur AI innovation, enabling AI solutions across sectors like health, education, transport, security, and public administration while fostering a trustworthy digital market.

  • A national AI platform will be established to develop, train, and pilot AI models, supporting local models with data and computing resources to strengthen technological sovereignty.

  • The law text is set to be officially published in the press following approval and publication processes.

  • President signs a comprehensive AI law establishing guiding principles, defining AI as a tool of informatization, and setting safety, transparency, and accountability standards.

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