{"name":"Applied AI in Uzbekistan — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Uzbekistan, 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/uzbekistan","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":"Uzbekistan","slug":"uzbekistan","iso2":"UZ","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":19,"deployments":13,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":5,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":19},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"School teacher and administrator","org":"Tashkent City Administration (khokimiyat)","text":"Tashkent's mayor ordered on 6 October that AI attendance tracking in schools reach another 302 city schools during 2027–2028. A pilot already runs 446 smart cameras with Face ID across 26 Sergeli district schools, logging pupils' arrival and lesson attendance. Officials also plan to mine the facial-recognition roll call to explain absences and compare teaching approaches, pupil activity and lesson organisation by teacher, class and subject.","date":"2026-10-08","source":"https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/ai-attendance-system-to-expand-to-302-tashkent-schools/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Tax collection officer","org":"Tax Committee of Uzbekistan","text":"The Tax Committee of Uzbekistan is taking the AI Call Center nationwide: AI debt collection calls tell people owing tax their balance and deadline, no staff involved. In a Gallaorol trial on Jizzakh property-tax debtors, 52% paid in full at once after this robocall collection.","date":"2026-09-21","source":"https://zamin.uz/en/uzbekistan/222040-ai-to-call-debtors-ai-call-center-being-launched-across-uzbekistan.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Credit officer","org":"Agrobank","text":"Agrobank now uses AI and data analytics in lending, internal controls and credit risk assessment. Internal auditor Shahob Eddin Masharipov says AI credit scoring on big data, drawn from tax reporting, telecom data and transaction activity, rates retail and small-business borrowers. Automated data checks cut microloan decisions to a few minutes with no credit officer involved, the bank says.","date":"2026-09-01","source":"https://www.trend.az/casia/uzbekistan/4219325.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Tax officer","org":"Tax Committee of Uzbekistan","text":"The Tax Committee of Uzbekistan has launched AI SOLIQ, a single AI tax platform running on its proprietary tax database. Entrepreneurs, accountants and company directors can chat to check their organisation's tax rating, available reliefs and filing duties, while tax officials apply it to decision support, routine automation and data analysis. It runs on the committee's Soliq LLM with machine-learning, computer vision and speech generation components.","date":"2026-08","source":"https://uz.sputniknews.ru/20260804/nalogovyy-komitet-uzbekistana-zapustil-platformu-ai-soliq-na-baze-ii-59485811.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Customs officer","org":"State Customs Committee of Uzbekistan","text":"An AI customs robot called AiRo is now working in Tashkent airport's international terminal, running software developed with Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee. Passengers can ask about bringing phones, medicines, jewellery or currency in or out, prohibited goods and how the red and green channels work. The committee wants the interactive robot to inform passengers fast, ease officers' work and prevent violations.","date":"2026-07-01","source":"https://www.spot.uz/ru/2026/07/01/airo/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","org":"Ministry of Digital Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan","text":"Uzbekistan's Minister of Digital Technologies has issued an AI governance framework under Order No. 284-mh, registered by the Ministry of Justice as No. 3787: the Ethical Rules for Creating, Implementing and Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Solutions. It binds developers, implementers and users, defining AI and AI systems while requiring safeguards for human rights, freedoms and legitimate interests. Uzbekistan's AI ethics standards take legal effect from 17 June 2026.","date":"2026-03-14","source":"https://lex.uz/en/docs/8083233"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","org":"Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan","text":"Law No. ZRU-1115 penalises unlawful AI processing of personal data with fines of 50–100 times the base calculation value, plus confiscation, by amending the Administrative Liability Code and the Law on Informatisation. This Uzbekistan AI regulation treats AI as technology mimicking human cognitive functions, such as self-learning and solution search. Its AI law provisions forbid AI-created information resources and systems from harming people or their rights, and ban legally significant decisions on human rights and freedoms that rely only on AI conclusions.","date":"2026-01-21","source":"https://lex.uz/ru/docs/8011377"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Bank staff, customer service agents","org":"InfinBANK","text":"InfinBANK's AI credit scoring banking model gained 10% accuracy from new behavioural signals, part of an in-house AI stack built on Gemma and Llama, tuned for Uzbek and Russian. A hologram greets branch visitors; a Telegram bot answers queries. Its own data centre hosts the ML-based system, sharpening AI-driven customer risk assessment.","date":"2025-11","source":"https://kun.uz/news/2025/11/25/infinbank-oz-ai-yechimlarini-qanday-yaratyapti-data-markazdan-golografik-assistentgacha"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Farmers and irrigation managers","org":"Rice Research Institute, Nukus / Uzbek agricultural authorities","text":"A two-hectare AGRINOZE trial at Karakalpakstan's Rice Research Institute in Nukus cut water use by half without any fertiliser, holding yields steady. Buried sensors track soil conditions and pass readings to a machine-learning model, which times and doses drip-fed water and nutrients on its own — an AI-driven precision irrigation approach now piloted elsewhere in Uzbekistan. The result shows how an AI-powered irrigation system can shrink resource use while keeping output constant.","date":"2025-11","source":"https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/uzbekistan-tests-agrinozes-water-on-demand-irrigation-system/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","org":"President of the Republic of Uzbekistan","text":"Uzbekistan's Presidential Decree UP-189 sets targets for AI adoption in government: 100 AI projects across public administration and the economy by end-2026, $1 billion in foreign AI investment by 2030, and 15 AI laboratories at higher education institutions by end-2026. A new Advisory Council under the Ministry of Digital Technologies will steer AI implementation in the public sector, backed by the ai.gov.uz portal, a non-governmental AI Alliance, and $100 million from the Reconstruction and Development Fund for AI infrastructure and projects.","date":"2025-10-22","source":"https://lex.uz/ru/docs/7790236?ONDATE=27.10.2025+00"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Judge / lawyer / court clerk","org":"Government of Uzbekistan (Supreme Court, Ministry of Digital Technologies)","text":"President Mirziyoyev's Decree UP-140 folds AI in judicial system operations into a staged Digital Court rollout across Uzbekistan. Litigants get forecast verdicts and probable costs before filing; once underway, cases gain live hearing transcripts and auto-drafted paperwork. Tashkent pilots launch by end-2025, with a virtual AI consultant reaching the my.sud.uz portal from January 2026.","date":"2025-08-21","source":"https://yuz.uz/en/news/v-deyatelnost-sudov-budut-vnedren-texnologii-iskusstvennogo-intellekta"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","org":"Oliy Majlis (Parliament of Uzbekistan)","text":"Two-stage passage in Uzbekistan gives artificial intelligence a formal legal footing: deputies cleared the bill through the Legislative Chamber on 12 August 2025, before the Senate signed off on 1 November 2025. Built as an amendment to the Informatization Act, the new Uzbekistan AI regulation defines AI in law, forces labels onto AI-generated content, and blocks any decision touching personal rights from resting on AI alone. Handling someone's data unlawfully through AI now carries administrative penalties, closing a gap the earlier act left open — an AI governance law shaped by parliament rather than by regulators alone.","date":"2025-08-12","source":"https://www.uzdaily.uz/en/legislative-chamber-of-uzbekistan-passes-law-on-legal-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Drivers","org":"Tashkent city government / Ministry of Internal Affairs","text":"Tashkent's Road Safety Service rolled out AI traffic cameras at 10 pedestrian crossings to catch drivers who fail to yield on unsignalled crossings, issuing 1,700 fines within the first three days. The rollout will extend to 30 additional intersections, according to the agency's press secretary, as part of a wider push for automated pedestrian-safety enforcement in Uzbekistan. The detection system targets crossings without traffic signals, relying on computer vision to flag violations in real time.","date":"2025-07","source":"https://www.spot.uz/ru/2025/07/13/cameras-ai/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","org":"Ministry of Digital Technologies of Uzbekistan","text":"Uzbekistan's One Million AI Leaders programme, run with the UAE, targets 100,000 young people this year via its AI study platform. The free AI training programme covers five tracks — AI fundamentals, generative AI, prompt engineering, ethical AI use — open to students, entrepreneurs and 100 tech enthusiasts, part of a wider AI skills initiative.","date":"2025-07-02","source":"https://www.spot.uz/oz/2025/07/02/1mln-prompters/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Traffic management officers","org":"Tashkent city government / Road Patrol Service","text":"Uzbekistan's road patrol service is running AI traffic management from Tashkent's Situational Monitoring Centre, expecting congestion to fall by 50 per cent. The intelligent transport platform reads live vehicle flow, anticipates bottlenecks and pulls in street-camera feeds to catch crashes and violations without human input, quickening emergency response too — a benefit officials themselves project rather than an audited result.","date":"2025-06-27","source":"https://nuz.uz/2025/06/27/iskusstvennyj-intellekt-vs-probki-v-tashkente-vnedrili-intellektualnuyu-transportnuyu-sistemu/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Call centre agents","org":"Mobiuz","text":"Uzbekistan's Mobiuz fields 25 to 30 per cent of call-centre traffic via its AI voice assistant for customer calls, Moobina, resolving tens of thousands of daily calls. Atop the Omilia AI platform, this AI customer-service bot confirms caller identity, verifies balances, guides tariffs and unblocks numbers unaided, work begun in 2024.","date":"2025-05","source":"https://www.belam.com/company-belam-riga-has-successfully-implemented-an-innovative-voice-assistant-based-on-ai-for-the-call-center-of-mobile-network-provider-mobiuz-in-uzbekistan/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Citizen services operator / legal adviser","org":"Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan","text":"Uzbekistan's Ministry of Justice launched an AI chatbot for government services, Odil, on Telegram to cut calls to its 1148 hotline, which logged nearly 135,000 queries in 2024. It answers questions on paperwork, procedures and submission locations, acting as an AI virtual assistant for public administration.","date":"2025-02-21","source":"https://kun.uz/en/news/2025/02/21/justice-ministry-launches-ai-powered-odil-chatbot-for-government-services"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Uzbekistan","role":"Call centre agent, bank sales staff","org":"TBC Uzbekistan","text":"AI voice agents now field over 50% of TBC Uzbekistan's payment reminder calls, the latest step in the Central Asian digital lender's AI banking automation push across Central Asia. Since January, a bilingual LLM built for product sales has driven Uzbek and Russian speech recognition and synthesis, with capacity flexing automatically alongside call centre demand. Staff at TBC describe these AI voice agents in banking as up to ten times stronger than human sales reps in certain instances, a claim from the firm itself rather than an outside audit.","date":"2025-01","source":"https://tbcbank.uz/news/articles/tbcbank-news-2605-z31/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Uzbekistan","org":"President of the Republic of Uzbekistan","text":"Uzbekistan's Presidential Resolution PQ-358, signed 14 October 2024, sets a Uzbekistan AI strategy targeting $1.5 billion in AI-based software products and services by 2030. It also targets a 10% share for AI-based services on the e-government portal, 10 new AI research laboratories, and a top-50 ranking on the Government AI Readiness Index. This Uzbekistan AI policy created the Center for Development of Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Economy under the Ministry of Digital Technologies, with an action plan for 2024-2026.","date":"2024-10-14","source":"https://lex.uz/en/docs/7159258"}]}