Artificial Intelligence · Georgia
AI regulation in Georgia: laws & policy (2026)
Georgia shaded by its artificial intelligence status
AI in Georgia: guidelines only.
FrameworkCouncil of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence (signed September 2024); fragmented multi-agency oversight across Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Innovation and Technology Agency, and Digital Governance Agency; UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment in progress (2025-2026); no dedicated domestic AI law or regulator
Georgia has enacted no domestic AI-specific legislation and has no national AI strategy or dedicated regulatory authority. The country's primary normative commitment is the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, the first binding international AI treaty, which Georgia signed in September 2024 alongside the EU, US, and UK. Domestic governance is fragmented across multiple agencies, and a UNESCO-backed AI readiness assessment launched in late 2025 is intended to inform future policy development.
Key points
On 5 September 2024, Georgia signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Vilnius, the first legally binding international AI instrument. Signatories are required to submit a report on domestic implementation reforms within two years of signing and thereafter periodically.
As of mid-2026 Georgia has passed no AI-specific national legislation and has no dedicated AI regulatory body. Civil society analysis by the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) confirms governance is fragmented across at least three agencies with no unified authority or published national AI strategy.
An EU-funded project to apply UNESCO's Readiness Assessment Methodology to Georgia, measuring readiness to implement the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, was officially launched on 26 September 2025. A national AI Readiness Forum bringing together government, civil society, and private sector stakeholders convened in Tbilisi on 17 April 2026.
AI policy responsibilities are distributed across the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, the Georgia Innovation and Technology Agency, and the Digital Governance Agency, with no single lead authority. IDFI has highlighted this fragmentation as a key governance gap that the CoE Convention obligations now require Georgia to address.
Georgia produced approximately 1.1 AI-related academic publications per million inhabitants in 2024, compared with an EU-27 average of 29.8, reflecting limited national AI research infrastructure at the time of the UNESCO readiness baseline assessment.
Beyond the CoE Convention, Georgia participates in UNESCO's global AI ethics framework and is tracked on the UNESCO Global Index on Responsible AI. These international commitments currently constitute the principal normative basis for AI governance in the country pending development of domestic instruments.
Timeline - major decisions & events
PMCG, under contract with UNESCO and EU funding, held the public kick-off of 'Assessing Georgia's Readiness for the Ethical and Responsible Deployment of Artificial Intelligence' in Tbilisi. The assessment found Georgia at a foundational stage with no dedicated national AI strategy, no AI-specific legislation, and no formal AI governance institution — and is intended to serve as the evidence base for Georgia's first National AI Strategy.
UNESCO Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory ↗The European Council announced that Georgia's EU accession process was de facto halted due to democratic backsliding, suspending the candidate-status reform incentives that had been the primary driver for digital and AI regulatory harmonization with EU standards.
Council of the European Union ↗Provisions of Georgia's 2023 Personal Data Protection Law requiring mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessments for fully automated decisions (including profiling) and formal appointment of Data Protection Officers became effective, creating direct compliance obligations for AI-driven data processing systems.
Legislative Herald of Georgia (Matsne) ↗Georgia's Personal Data Protection Service published the country's first regulatory guidance on automated decision-making and profiling, clarifying data-subject rights to contest purely automated decisions with significant effects and mandating that controllers document the logic and impact of automated systems — the closest Georgia has to AI-specific regulatory direction.
DataGuidance (reporting on PDPS guidance) ↗The European Council granted Georgia EU candidate status conditional on nine reform steps. Candidate status creates a long-term political expectation of alignment with the EU AI Act and the broader EU digital acquis, making EU AI Act transposition a future legislative milestone.
European Commission — DG NEAR (Enlargement) ↗A USAID-commissioned Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) found Georgia's fast-growing ICT sector (5.2% of GDP) had no national AI strategy and no AI-specific regulation, explicitly identifying AI governance as a critical emerging policy gap alongside cybersecurity and data protection.
USAID / PMCG (Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment) ↗Georgia's Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area with the EU entered full force, legally obligating Georgia to approximate its legislation to EU law including data protection and digital standards — establishing the EU-harmonization framework that now anchors all AI-relevant regulatory development.
EU External Action Service (EEAS) ↗Georgia's Parliament passed its inaugural Personal Data Protection Law, establishing the country's first data protection authority and baseline framework for regulating data processing — the foundational predecessor to the 2023 GDPR-aligned law that now governs AI-driven data systems.
Legislative Herald of Georgia (Matsne) ↗Georgia - other topics
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