National Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Policy, 2025

Summary

Nepal's national AI policy. It commits the government to a risk-management and AI governance framework in line with globally recognised standards, including a framework to classify AI systems by risk and mitigate the risks. Action policies include AI laws to assess risks and ensure responsible and accountable use; standards for data, algorithms and technologies; benchmarking and certification of AI systems for quality, safety and reliability; standards against cybersecurity risks and AI-driven misinformation; a regulatory sandbox; and measures against deepfakes and personal biases. An AI Regulation Council chaired by the ICT minister is to develop standards and regulate AI.

Language

English translation by Government of Nepal Open it. The Nepali text is authoritative.

Safety topics

Status notes

The Cabinet endorsed the policy, presented by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, at its meeting of 11 August 2025, and the government spokesperson announced the decision on 14 August 2025 (The Himalayan Times, 14 August 2025); the policy text itself is undated. The Nepal Law Commission lists the policy under 6 Asoj 2083 (22 September 2026). The AI Regulation Council is chaired by the Minister for Communication and Information Technology and comprises the secretaries of the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers and of the ICT, finance and education ministries, the chair of the Nepal Telecommunications Authority, the CEO of the E-Governance Board, three experts from the private sector and universities (at least one a woman) and the chief of the National AI Centre as member secretary; it meets at least twice a year, and the National AI Centre serves as its secretariat. The Ministry reviews implementation annually, and the policy is to be reviewed every two years. Section 14 on risk identification concerns risks to the policy's implementation; the classification of AI systems by risk is to come from an AI governance framework under action policy 9.53.

Sources

Open the official source https://giwmscdnone.gov.np/media/pdf_upload/National%20AI%20Policy-Final_uxc94vg.pdf

Secondary source: https://lawcommission.gov.np/content/13606/national-artificial-intelligence--ai--policy--2082/

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18english_version: – → {"kind": "government translation", "url": "https://giwmscdnone.gov.np/media/pdf_ — added: the English text on the Government of Nepal's web platform (the record's official_url), a government translation2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18notes: The Cabinet endorsed the policy at its meeting of 11 August 2025 (press reports; → The Cabinet endorsed the policy, presented by the Ministry of Communication and — the Council's composition completed (experts, member secretary) and the two-yearly review added from the text; the statement that AI-system risk classification is left to future laws and standards corrected (action policy 9.53 assigns it to an AI governance framework); the claims on 'an official English version' on the Law Commission page and on the press report of the National AI Centre's inauguration removed, since no stored file shows them; the source of the Cabinet date (The Himalayan Times) named2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["accountability & liability", "evaluation & testing", "deepfakes & synthetic me → ["risk-based classification", "accountability & liability", "evaluation & testin — risk-based classification added (action policy 9.53: an AI governance framework to classify AI systems by risk)2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18summary: Nepal's first national AI policy, endorsed by the Cabinet in August 2025. It com → Nepal's national AI policy. It commits the government to a risk-management and A — the unsupported 'first' and 'endorsed by the Cabinet in August 2025' removed; the risk-classification framework of action policy 9.53, the quality, safety and reliability aim of 9.5 and the measures against deepfakes and personal biases of 9.60 added from the text2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-18language: Nepali, English → Nepali — the policy was adopted by the Cabinet of Nepal; the Nepal Law Commission lists it under its Nepali title and embeds a 32-page Nepali text, stored in this run; the English text names no translator, so it is a translation, not an official text2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-18date_published: 2025-08-11 → 2025 — the stored official text gives only the year (2025, in its title) and the Law Commission page gives only its own listing date; the day 11 August 2025 is the Cabinet meeting reported by The Himalayan Times and moves to notes (AGENTS.md section 7.7: date at the precision of the official source)2026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
7. 2026-10-18title: National Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Policy, 2082 (2025) → National Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Policy, 2025 — the English text's own title; the published title mixed the Nepali year 2082 with the English text's 2025 ('2082 (2025)'), which no source uses; the short title keeps 20822026-10-18-recheck-south-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Government of Nepal, Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. National Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Policy, 2025. 2025. https://giwmscdnone.gov.np/media/pdf_upload/National%20AI%20Policy-Final_uxc94vg.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/NP-01/2026-10-12/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-12 04:44:12 UTC, SHA-256 c8dad816f35f455fe04973d648f3326d660dc9316943114b68a08203bce47eb2. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record NP-01.

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