AI regulation in Georgia (2026)

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.