Digital Code of the Kyrgyz Republic (Chapter 23 on artificial intelligence systems)

Цифровой кодекс Кыргызской Республики

Record KG-01 · Code No. 178 of 31 July 2025 (brought into force by Law No. 179 of 31 July 2025)

Issued by: Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic; signed by the President
Jurisdiction: Kyrgyzstan
Level · region: National · Central Asia
Published / adopted: 2025-07-31
In force: 2026-02-06
Language: Russian, Kyrgyz
Official identifier: Code No. 178 of 31 July 2025 (brought into force by Law No. 179 of 31 July 2025)

Summary

Kyrgyzstan's codified digital law; Chapter 23 (Articles 191-197) is the country's first binding AI regulation. AI may be developed and used freely except as the Code provides, under seven principles: risk reduction, openness, explainability, human control, accuracy, reliability and security. Using AI to cause deliberate unlawful harm to protected interests is prohibited. Every AI system needs an owner-led danger assessment. 'Increased-danger' systems must meet Cabinet requirements on risk management, data quality and documentation, keep logs and confirm conformity by a signed declaration before use; their users must keep effective human control.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Russian, Kyrgyz text.

Safety topics

risk-based classificationhuman oversightaccountability & liabilityprohibited practicestransparency & labellingevaluation & testing

Scope

Borderline scope Digital Code that is not AI-specific as a whole; included because Chapter 23 is the operative law on AI systems.

Open question

checker: The Digital Code could not be stored: the stored text is the page title only. Title, original title and date are supported by that title alone; status, official_identifier, date_in_force, summary and notes have no stored evidence and cannot be checked. These values are left as published, bu Issue #131

The record shows its last checked values until a maintainer decides; the decision is recorded in its history.

Status notes

Signed on 31 July 2025 and officially published in early August 2025 (the register of legal acts gives 5 August 2025 for Law No. 179 and 8 August 2025 for the Code). Law No. 179 brings the Code into force six months after its official publication; the Ministry of Justice register records 6 February 2026 as the entry-into-force date. Article 194 lets professional associations of AI-system owners adopt binding rules on ethics, danger assessment, risk management and quality management, and Article 126 treats AI used in 'digital well-being' services as increased-danger AI. Article 197 requires owners and users of AI that interacts with consumers to tell them they are dealing with AI unless this is obvious, to publish information on their AI use, and to inform people subjected to emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems, with exceptions for defence, national security and law enforcement. The Cabinet of Ministers approved the content and form of the conformity declaration on 31 December 2025 (Order No. 1181-t). In September 2026 the Ministry of Digital Development put a draft Regulation on AI ethics out for public discussion, which would require owners to self-assess the ethics and safety of a system before launch, mandatory for public bodies and increased-danger systems and advisory for the private sector (press report).

Sources

Open the official source https://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/3-48/edition/35412/ru

Secondary source: https://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/4-5604/edition/35394/ru

Local copy

Archived, needs review. The site returned a JavaScript bot-check page (web application firewall) instead of the document. The secondary source is a bot-check or empty page (The site returned a JavaScript bot-check page (web application firewall) instead of the document). Last attempt 2026-10-17 21:36:54 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/KG-01/2026-10-12/official.html

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:43:56 UTC

SHA-256 ed7eb871d2061cf3a0bac825cbe70bda87a17304765a47e4ea5cec2b6a6593b0

Warning: The site returned a JavaScript bot-check page (web application firewall) instead of the document

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/KG-01/2026-10-12/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:43:58 UTC

SHA-256 e3a4667230f5792890c4d5f951420019d5aa35189617b80836c7f55c0638127d

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Verification

Not confirmed on an official page; the record rests on secondary sources. Check it before citing. checked 2026-10-17 · search-confirmed

CAUTION: no official source confirms the title, date and status; the record rests on secondary sources. PARTIAL. Recheck of 17 Oct 2026: the Code could not be stored. The copies of the Ministry of Justice central register of legal acts (cbd.minjust.gov.kg) stored on 12 Oct 2026 are the register's JavaScript application shell, whose text is only the page title 'Цифровой Кодекс Кыргызской Республики от 31 июля 2025 года'; the browser retry then failed with an HTTP/2 protocol error, and on 17 Oct 2026 the site refused the archiver's connection (TLS protocol version). The number 178, Law No. 179 and its six-month rule, the entry-into-force date, the status, the summary and the notes rest on version 1, which read the Code and the register's metadata through the site's data interface without storing them. The September 2026 draft ethics regulation in the notes rests on an Economist.kg report that is not stored. No English translation of the Code was found.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-17: 3 field(s) supported, fixes applied to scope_note.

History

2026-10-17verification.level: A → C — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — no English translation of the Code was found in a search2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-17scope_note: – → Digital Code that is not AI-specific as a whole; included because Chapter 23 is — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 (recheck), candidate KG-012026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic; signed by the President. Digital Code of the Kyrgyz Republic (Chapter 23 on artificial intelligence systems) [Code No. 178 of 31 July 2025 (brought into force by Law No. 179 of 31 July 2025)]. 2025-07-31. https://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/3-48/edition/35412/ru. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-17 (level C). Local copy archive/KG-01/2026-10-12/official.html retrieved 2026-10-12 04:43:56 UTC, SHA-256 ed7eb871d2061cf3a0bac825cbe70bda87a17304765a47e4ea5cec2b6a6593b0. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record KG-01.

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