{"name":"Applied AI in Kazakhstan — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Kazakhstan, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/kazakhstan","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Kazakhstan","slug":"kazakhstan","iso2":"KZ","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":28,"deployments":21,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":5,"industries":9,"countries":1,"linked":28},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan has put 75 service members, including Air Defence Forces and Ground Forces conscripts, into AI training for the military at Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana. Run under AI+X, a three-year government pilot, the course has trainees describe needs in plain language, then check generated code for data visualisation and apps.","date":"2026-10-12","source":"https://timesca.com/kazakhstan-military-ai-training/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Polyclinic registry staff","org":"Atyrau Region health authorities (Kazakhstan)","text":"Fifteen polyclinics and primary-care organisations across Atyrau Region adopted Akylmed AI, handing AI appointment booking to Asel, a round-the-clock virtual operator. City Polyclinic No. 6 already covers over 37,000 patients through this AI patient contact system.","date":"2026-10-01","source":"https://www.pravda.ru/news/kazakhstan/2418529-akylmed-ai-atyrau/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Conscription commission officer","org":"Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan's Ministry of Defence now runs AI in military conscription, with software proposing the best-fitting branch and type of service for each recruit from body measurements and schooling. These automated service-branch recommendations guide the commissions, which alone decide who is called up after reviewing medical examination results.","date":"2026-09-16","source":"https://24.kz/ru/news/social/792266-ii-pomogaet-vybirat-vid-i-rod-vojsk-dlya-prizyvnikov-v-kazakhstane"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Teacher","org":"Kyzylorda Region education authorities","text":"Kyzylorda region has installed an AI system in 144 schools as a pilot of AI for teachers. Some 20,000 staff trained; teachers get a digital helper for lesson materials and tests. Camera analytics alert the director's phone to fights or misconduct in this classroom AI rollout.","date":"2026-09-01","source":"https://khabar.kz/ru/news/nauka-i-obrazovanie/190086-v-144-shkolakh-kyzylordinskoj-oblasti-zapustili-pilotnyj-proekt-s-ii"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Primary school teacher","org":"Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan's education ministry, under Minister Zhuldyz Suleimenova, said its AI in schools pilot would begin on 1 September in ten small schools across the Pavlodar and Kyzylorda regions, with AI solutions tested in fourth-grade classes covering mathematics, digital literacy, the native language and AI itself. Fifty more schools are scheduled to join in November and another 300 in January 2027, on the way to 500 small rural schools through 2029. Published a fortnight before the start date, the source does not confirm that AI-assisted learning began on the announced day.","date":"2026-08-18","source":"https://timesca.com/kazakhstan-ai-education-schools-university/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Radiologist","org":"City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Shymkent","text":"City Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Shymkent added CEREBRA, AI stroke detection that reads brain CT scans for acute cerebrovascular events, in July 2026, continuing a phased city rollout that began at City Hospital No. 2. Its doctors treat it as a supplementary tool and still decide the stroke type themselves; over 4,000 studies went through CEREBRA across Shymkent in the first half of 2026.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://kazlenta.kz/119685-kak-iskusstvennyy-intellekt-pomogaet-vyyavlyat-insult-v-shymkente.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Judge","org":"Supreme Court of Kazakhstan","text":"The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan is finishing the nationwide rollout of its Digital Judge's Assistant, an AI judicial assistant piloted for about eighteen months in Astana and the Zhambyl, Karaganda and Mangystau regions. It searches about 15 million machine-readable units of judicial material for comparable cases, analyses practice, structures claims, lays out parties' positions in Kazakh and Russian and forecasts likely civil-dispute outcomes. Judges keep the decision, with court chairs stressing the tools assist rather than replace them.","date":"2026-05","source":"https://ru.elordainfo.kz/raznoe-ru/verhovnyy-sud-vnedryaet-ii-analitiku-vo-vseh-sudah-kazahstana"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Marketing manager","org":"Mechta.kz","text":"Mechta.kz has launched Kazakhstan's first AI brand ambassador, Armanay, a virtual figure built in-house by its own designer. She will front adverts, video reviews and SMM for the electronics chain's digital transformation, part of a wider rise in AI virtual influencers across retail marketing.","date":"2025-11-24","source":"https://tribune.kz/mechta-kz-predstavila-virtualnogo-ambassadora-sozdannogo-nejrosetyu/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"Republic of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan AI regulation gained legal force when Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan 'On Artificial Intelligence'. This AI governance framework obliges systems to operate with transparency, accountability and human oversight, outlaws manipulative tactics and unconsented data gathering, and compels labelling of machine-generated material.","date":"2025-11-17","source":"https://en.tengrinews.kz/news_overview/tokayev-signs-law-on-artificial-intelligence-270147/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan","text":"The President signed Law No. 230-VIII 'On Artificial Intelligence', Kazakhstan AI regulation effective 18 January 2026. The law sorts AI systems into three risk tiers (minimum, medium, high) and bans social scoring and manipulative AI. Synthetic content needs labels, AI system owners face transparency duties, and the AI rules create the National Artificial Intelligence Platform.","date":"2025-11-17","source":"https://www.ey.com/en_kz/technical/tax-alerts/2025/12/law-on-artificial-intelligence-kazakhstan"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Financial analyst","org":"National Bank of Kazakhstan","text":"An AI analyst for rate decisions is coming to Kazakhstan's central bank, offering independent input during Monetary Policy Committee sessions, the National Bank governor told the Central Asia Fintech Summit 2025. Built as a corporate AI tool, the system contributes views on agenda items without casting a vote, leaving ultimate authority with human officials — its role limited to automated economic analysis for monetary policy rather than decision-making itself.","date":"2025-11-13","source":"https://kapital.kz/finance/142332/ii-analitik-budet-pomogat-nacbanku-prinimat-resheniya-po-bazovoj-stavke.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Entrepreneur","org":"Freedom Bank Kazakhstan","text":"Freedom Bank in Kazakhstan now runs an AI voice assistant for entrepreneurs, answering 119 spoken commands in Kazakh and Russian. Owners settle taxes, shift funds, clear loans, run payroll and raise invoices aloud, hearing the CEO's voice reply. Voice-driven banking automation reaches small-business tasks.","date":"2025-11-11","source":"https://astanatimes.com/2025/11/freedom-bank-unveils-ai-voice-assistant-for-kazakh-entrepreneurs/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Insurance claims adjuster","org":"Freedom Insurance","text":"Freedom Insurance runs AI fraud detection insurance checks in Kazakhstan via the Sergek intelligent monitoring platform. Road camera footage confirms reported collisions, while vehicle usage patterns feed risk scoring for voluntary auto policies. This AI-driven insurance fraud detection method builds accurate risk profiles for underwriting.","date":"2025-11-07","source":"https://dknews.kz/en/articles-in-english/374303-ai-as-a-detective-how-neural-networks-help-insurers"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Legislative drafter","org":"Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan plans an AI smart assistant lawmaking tool to help draft regulatory legal acts, said Deputy Minister Bekbolat Moldabekov of the Ministry of Justice on 23 October 2025. It will apply international best practice, run legal monitoring, and flag clauses clashing with Constitutional Court rulings — an AI-assisted legal drafting step forward. This follows Digital Bailiff, live since August 2024, credited with saving citizens over 1.9 billion tenge (US$3.5 million) in enforcement fees, per the ministry.","date":"2025-10-23","source":"https://astanatimes.com/2025/10/kazakhstan-to-integrate-artificial-intelligence-into-lawmaking-process/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Tax officer","org":"Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan's Ministry of Finance built Smart Data Finance (SDF), a big-data platform for AI tax administration and automated tax calculation. Records cover 1.9 million individual entrepreneurs, 584,000 legal entities and 20.4 million individuals, merging property, employment, tax history and social assistance data into one profile, with analytics flagging risk.","date":"2025-10","source":"https://kazakhstan.moore-global.com/new-digital-platforms-simplify-taxes-and-customs-in-kazakhstan/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Customs officer","org":"State Revenue Committee, Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan's State Revenue Committee is testing NOMAD, an AI border monitoring pilot watching how staff treat traders at Nur Zholy customs post in Zhetysu region. Since October 2025 the tool has issued QR tickets, sorted queues automatically, and captured officer-trader conversations for machine review of wording and mood. Roughly 18% of exchanges scanned so far under this AI customs monitoring system showed improper phrasing, out of thousands logged.","date":"2025-10","source":"https://inbusiness.kz/ru/last/ii-sistemu-nomad-zapustili-na-granice-rk"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Therapist","org":"Kazakhstan Ministry of Healthcare","text":"30 clinics scattered across Kazakhstan now form the testing ground for an AI therapist, unveiled amid Digital Bridge 2025 forum proceedings. Officials envisage nationwide adoption across every medical organisation once this trial mental health chatbot proves itself. Broader digital healthcare projects already underway in the country provide the backdrop for this initiative.","date":"2025-10-03","source":"https://qazinform.com/news/ai-therapist-tested-in-kazakhstan-project-implemented-in-30-clinics-150cf3"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Land resource manager","org":"Government of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan plans a major expansion of AI satellite monitoring of farmland, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on 8 September 2025. The upgraded system will assess soil quality, harvest volumes, and crop spread nationwide, with the same AI-driven land monitoring extended to forestry. A single digital land-resource map combining cadastral records is also planned.","date":"2025-09-08","source":"https://astanatimes.com/2025/09/kazakhstan-to-boost-ai-driven-satellite-monitoring-in-agriculture-says-president-tokayev/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Gas utility operator","org":"QazaqGaz","text":"Manual home visits are disappearing from gas billing at QazaqGaz Aimaq, Kazakhstan's biggest gas supplier, now trialling AI meter reading via an app that reads consumption straight off a snapped photo. Kyzylorda, Kostanay and Turkestan host the pilot, aimed at quicker bills.","date":"2025-07-28","source":"https://www.inform.kz/ru/ii-nachali-ispolzovat-v-kazahstane-dlya-peredachi-pokazaniy-gaza-6b6e24"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Police investigator","org":"Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan's Ministry of Internal Affairs is piloting an AI investigator assistant for police, the Digital Assistant for Investigators, at Astana's Yesil district department. Interrogation speech becomes searchable text, mismatched witness accounts get flagged, and case files draft themselves unaided. Similar past rulings guide the software's next-step recommendations.","date":"2025-06-19","source":"https://time.kz/news/economics/2025/06/21/pilotnyj-proekt-tsifrovogo-pomoshhnika-sledovatelya-zapustili-v-kazahstane"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Student","org":"Beeline Kazakhstan","text":"Beeline Kazakhstan's Janymda super-app now hosts an AI language tutor, engineered by QazCode atop KazLLM, a homegrown large language model. Six playful modules with a guiding avatar serve grown-ups and youngsters studying Kazakh. Rarely does such an AI-powered learning assistant rest on domestic rather than imported technology.","date":"2025-06-03","source":"https://www.veon.com/newsroom/press-releases/empowering-kazakh-students-veons-beeline-kazakhstan-introduces-ai-based-tutor-powered-by-kazllm"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"Ministry of Digital Development and Agency for Civil Service Affairs of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan's Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, with the Agency for Civil Service Affairs, rolled out AI Qyzmet: AI training for civil servants using five-minute videos. Officials learn to apply artificial intelligence in planning, data handling, decisions and automating tasks. This Central Eurasia first targets 30,000 public employees yearly, an AI skills training for government workers push.","date":"2025-05-26","source":"https://kazpravda.kz/n/obuchenie-po-ii-navykam-dlya-gossluzhashchih-zapuskayut-v-rk/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"E-commerce seller","org":"Wildberries","text":"Wildberries brought AI in e-commerce analytics to Kazakhstan with Jam, a new seller-facing tool powered by a neural network. Sellers gain automated image and description editing for promo pages, plus visibility into audience segments, search-term performance and sales funnel conversion. The marketplace positions this AI-based seller analytics tool as a way to sharpen listings and lift conversions for Eurasian sellers.","date":"2025-05-26","source":"https://macaubusiness.com/wildberries-launches-new-analytics-delivery-tools-for-sellers-in-kazakhstan/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"President of the Republic of Kazakhstan","text":"Kazakhstan AI policy now runs through a new presidential advisory body, the Council for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, created by Decree No. 881 and chaired personally by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Seats around the table go to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, and outside foreign experts brought in from beyond government ranks. The panel's remit stretches across drafting national AI strategy proposals, sharpening AI-related legislation, and scrutinising AI projects through expert vetting.","date":"2025-05-19","source":"http://insecure.zan.kz/rus/docs/U2500000881"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Petroleum engineer","org":"KazMunayGas","text":"KazMunayGas has deployed ABAI for AI oil exploration and production across seven modules covering wells, repairs and flood control. Flooding-event readiness fell from 40 hours to two, saving KZT450 million, with KZT9.3 billion projected by 2030 — an AI-based oilfield safety and speed upgrade using Big Data (unaudited company figures).","date":"2025-04-24","source":"https://sk.kz/press-center/news/78141/?lang=ru"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Kazakhstan","role":"Plant operator","org":"Eurasian Resources Group","text":"Eurasian Resources Group is applying AI in mining at Kazchrome's Donskoy chrome ore plant in Khromtau, Kazakhstan, where cameras now catch belt overheating before it starts. This machine vision for predictive maintenance approach cut overheating downtime by 75 per cent and matched human operator inspections on 80 per cent of detected flaws, with ERG's own figure crediting the rollout with over US$300,000 in cost savings within three months.","date":"2025-02-06","source":"https://im-mining.com/2025/02/06/ergs-ai-conveyor-belt-solution-delivers-the-goods-at-donskoy-plant/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan","text":"The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has launched a Kazakhstan AI policy under Resolution No. 592, setting a five-year national AI strategy through 2029 across data, infrastructure, talent, R&D and legal rules. Targets include training five million people in AI skills, building five domestic unicorns, raising IT exports to $5 billion, and deploying at least 25 AI products yearly across economic sectors. The plan is formally titled the Concept for the Development of Artificial Intelligence.","date":"2024-07-24","source":"https://prg.kz/document/?doc_id=34317430"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Kazakhstan","org":"Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry","text":"Kazakhstan now has a National Ethical Code in the Field of Artificial Intelligence, issued by the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, setting out AI ethics in Kazakhstan across six areas: putting people first; safety and reliability; being transparent and explainable; accountability; avoiding unfair bias; and protecting the environment. Signing is optional for state bodies, businesses and researchers, though it may improve odds in government contract bids. This Kazakhstan AI regulation leans on incentives rather than legal duty to encourage buy-in.","date":"2024-06-12","source":"https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-KZ-NA-KAZAKHS-2024"}]}