{"id":7375,"date":"2025-04-07T05:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/?page_id=7375"},"modified":"2026-05-14T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:51:42","slug":"artificial-intelligence-governance-central-asia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/artificial-intelligence-governance-central-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Governance in Central Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Focus Area \/ Artificial Intelligence Governance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KG Labs has worked on AI governance in Central Asia since 2022 \u2014 as a country researcher for the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI), as a fellow of the Center for AI and Digital Policy and the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center, and as a contributor to national policy processes in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. This page collects that record: five country assessments, regional analysis, policy contributions, and a training and fellowship history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finding 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the region, countries are being assessed on declared intent \u2014 strategies, national plans, presidential decrees \u2014 not on the institutional machinery required to act on them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Finding 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human rights dimension is the most unevenly treated area in the region\u2019s AI governance record \u2014 present in some national documents, absent from others, and rarely operationalised in either case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Finding 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capacity gaps in the region are structural, not only legislative. The shortage is not primarily in written law \u2014 it is in the agencies, technical talent, and civil society participation that would give law operational meaning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country Assessments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Country-level research for the GIRAI 1st Edition (2023), covering all five Central Asian states. Each assessment examines AI strategy, human rights frameworks, regulatory institutions, and technical capacity against the GIRAI index criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Country Assessment \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyrgyzstan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kyrgyzstan shows meaningful engagement with the human rights dimension of AI governance, against limited national strategy infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Country Assessment \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kazakhstan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kazakhstan has the region\u2019s most developed AI governance infrastructure; its gap is between institutional ambition and applied ethics frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Country Assessment \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tajikistan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tajikistan presents AI strategy language without an operational framework: policy declarations exist, implementation mechanisms do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Country Assessment \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uzbekistan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Uzbekistan\u2019s AI ecosystem is actively under construction \u2014 significant infrastructure investment is preceding, rather than following from, governance development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Country Assessment \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turkmenistan <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Turkmenistan\u2019s near-absent AI governance record documents what it looks like when a country is largely outside the global AI policy conversation \u2014 the absence itself is the finding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regional Analysis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three cross-cutting analyses synthesise the country assessments into a regional picture: a composite scorecard, a focused look at how human rights language appears \u2014 or doesn\u2019t \u2014 across AI governance documents, and a survey of national AI development capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regional Synthesis \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regional Dashboard<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Composite view of all five country assessments \u2014 where the region clusters, where it diverges, and what the variance between neighbouring states reveals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rights Analysis \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where Rights Show Up<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Where human rights language appears in Central Asian AI governance documents, and what it looks like when it does \u2014 from substantive commitment to nominal mention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Capacity Analysis \u00b7 GIRAI 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

National AI Capacities<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A comparative look at AI development capacity across the five countries: talent pipelines, compute access, research output, and the institutional conditions that shape them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Advisory & Analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policy Contributions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

KG Labs has contributed directly to national and regional AI policy processes, alongside its research and assessment work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n