AI regulation in Tajikistan (2026)

Adopted in September 2022 and signed by President Rahmon, the strategy sets a roadmap to derive up to 5% of GDP from AI-related activity by 2040, emphasizing ethical development, data sovereignty, and AI use across public administration, healthcare, agriculture, environment, and information security. It is a policy/guidance document rather than enforceable law.

The strategy framework calls for developing a draft Law of the Republic of Tajikistan 'On Artificial Intelligence' to define the principles of state regulation. As of 2026 this remains in the development/preparation stage; no binding AI statute has been adopted.

The Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies under the President leads AI policy and has established an Interdepartmental Commission for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence to coordinate national policy implementation and execution of the 2040 strategy.

Tajikistan has proposed a Regional Center for Artificial Intelligence for Central Asian Countries in Dushanbe and, at the Fifth SCO ICT Ministers' meeting in late April 2026, reaffirmed its 2040 AI strategy and proposed SCO cooperation on digital governance, including a regional mechanism to legally regulate new technologies.

Tajikistan initiated a UN General Assembly resolution on artificial intelligence, reflecting an emphasis on shaping AI governance norms internationally rather than enacting detailed domestic binding rules to date.

There is currently no enacted comprehensive AI law (as in the EU AI Act) and no specific binding sectoral AI regulation; AI governance rests on the non-binding national strategy and administrative coordination bodies pending future legislation.