Recent Policies, Regulations and Laws Related to Artificial Intelligence Across the Central Asia

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence as technology is developing fast in the Central Asian Region. In Post COVID World, it is expected to change the people’s lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases), increasing the efficiency of state institutions (e-governments), contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation, improving the efficiency of production systems through predictive maintenance, increasing the security of Central Asian, and in many other ways that we can only begin to imagine. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) entails a number of potential risks, such as opaque decision-making, gender-based or other kinds of discrimination, intrusion in our private lives or being used for criminal purposes. Against a background of fierce global competition, a solid Central Asian approach is needed, building on a Centralized AI Policy for Central Asia proposed by Ammar Younas. To address the opportunities and challenges of AI, Central Asia must act as one and define its own way, based on Asian values, to promote the development and deployment of AI.

Keywords: AI, AI Law, AI Ethics, Central Asia, Technology Law