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Law / Kazakhstan

Law on Artificial Intelligence, prohibited practices

Law No. 230-VIII (17 November 2025), Art. 17(3)

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In force 8 months, effective 17 January 2026.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not build or operate an AI system that uses subconscious or manipulative methods to distort a person's behaviour or coerce a harmful decision.
  • Do not build or operate an AI system that exploits a person's age, disability, social position or other vulnerability to cause or threaten harm.
  • Do not evaluate or classify people over time by their social behaviour or predicted personal traits, unless a Kazakhstani law provides for it.
  • Do not classify people by biometric data to infer race, political views, religion or similar traits for the purpose of discrimination.
  • Do not determine a person's emotions without their consent, unless a Kazakhstani law provides for it.
  • Do not create or distribute an AI-generated output that Kazakhstani law bans.

What it reaches

How the hook was established

express

What makes it apply

Place of effect

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 17(3) is an outright ban on seven functional capabilities; it states no duty to log, record or document anything, and creates nothing a party would need to demonstrate or produce on demand.

Kind
None
As of
22 September 2026

Who checks it

Audit expectation

none

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Article 17(3) bans creating or operating an AI system that has any of seven functional capabilities: using subconscious, manipulative or other methods that distort a person's behaviour and impair their ability to make an informed decision, or coerce a decision that could cause or threaten harm; exploiting a person's moral or physical vulnerability arising from age, disability, social position or other circumstance to cause or threaten harm; evaluating or classifying people over time by their social behaviour or known, presumed or predicted personal traits, except where a Kazakhstani law provides for it; collecting or processing personal data in violation of Kazakhstan's personal-data legislation; classifying people by biometric data to infer race, political views, religious affiliation or other criteria for the purpose of discrimination; determining a person's emotions without their consent, except where a Kazakhstani law provides for it; and creating or distributing AI-generated output that Kazakhstani law bans.

When LexLint raises it

  • high_risk_decisions
  • processes_biometrics
  • automated_outreach

Read the law

Law on Artificial Intelligence, official statute text, Adilet Legal Information System

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