Artificial Intelligence Basic Act

人工智慧基本法

Record TW-01 · Presidential Order Hua-Zong-Yi-Yi-Zi No. 11500001671 (華總一義字第11500001671號)

Issued by: Legislative Yuan; promulgated by the President (central competent authority: National Science and Technology Council)
Jurisdiction: Taiwan
Level · region: National · East Asia
Published / adopted: 2026-01-14
In force: 2026-01-14
Language: Chinese (Traditional)
Official identifier: Presidential Order Hua-Zong-Yi-Yi-Zi No. 11500001671 (華總一義字第11500001671號)

Summary

Framework law setting seven principles for government AI policy: sustainable development and well-being, human autonomy, privacy protection and data governance, cybersecurity and safety, transparency and explainability, fairness and non-discrimination, and accountability. The government must prevent AI uses that infringe life, body, liberty or property or involve discrimination or misleading information, and regulators must restrict or prohibit them. High-risk applications must carry warnings. MODA must promote an AI risk taxonomy and assessment framework and assessment tools, liability and remedies for high-risk AI must be defined, and agencies must risk-assess their own AI use.

Language

English translation by National Science and Technology Council Open it. The Chinese (Traditional) text is authoritative.

Safety topics

risk-based classificationtransparency & labellingevaluation & testingaccountability & liabilitypublic-sector usechild safety

Status notes

Enacted in full (20 articles) by presidential order promulgated on 14 Jan 2026 (ROC 115-01-14), and in force from promulgation (Art. 20). Agencies must review the laws and administrative measures they administer and make, amend or repeal them within two years of the Act's effective date (Art. 18). The Executive Yuan must set up a National AI Strategic Committee, convened by the Premier with the NSTC handling its staff work, which formulates the National AI Development Guidelines and meets at least once a year (Art. 6). High-risk applications are those a central sector authority, in consultation with the Ministry of Digital Affairs, identifies as such (Art. 5(2)).

Sources

Open the official source https://law.nstc.gov.tw/LawContent.aspx?id=GL000592

Secondary source: https://law.nstc.gov.tw/EngLawList.aspx?id=GL000592

Local copy

Archived. The secondary source returned a bot-check or empty page this time (The page has very little readable text (485 characters); it probably needs JavaScript); the earlier copy is kept. A source changed since the previous snapshot; both versions are kept. Last attempt 2026-10-18 00:44:49 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/TW-01/2026-10-18/official-2.html

Retrieved 2026-10-18 00:44:54 UTC

SHA-256 e9ad2c3f6f19e2c04c125570c1653b2cc60e9934d35524edf6103558d92282f5

Linked document (PDF) (third-party copy, not published) archive/TW-01/2026-10-11/document-1.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-11 14:04:37 UTC

SHA-256 dac3aa16e2a6cb8a94513a18d35e5dc55fc5a111e4da06fe4495830f4992bfe9

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/TW-01/2026-10-11/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-11 14:04:40 UTC

SHA-256 32b7d9c73b84b1ec568e170a153b3b14a9e555bb8fb7d3d026c8573b306d3154

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored and read: the Act's page on the National Science and Technology Council's law database (law.nstc.gov.tw, copy of 18 Oct 2026, which differs from the copy of 11 Oct 2026 only in the visitor counter), giving the title 人工智慧基本法, the promulgation date 民國115年01月14日 (14 Jan 2026), the order number 華總一義字第11500001671號 and the text of Articles 1 to 20; the Act's history page on the same database (法規沿革, 18 Oct 2026), whose only entry is the enactment in full of 20 articles by presidential order of 14 Jan 2026, in force from promulgation, so no amendment has followed; the NSTC's English translation of the Act (EngLawContent, HTML and PDF of 18 Oct 2026), titled 'Artificial Intelligence Basic Act', dated 2026.01.14 and 'Promulgated on January 14, 2026'; and the database's list of English-translated laws (copy of 11 Oct 2026; on 18 Oct 2026 it came back as an empty script shell). The English text is a translation the NSTC publishes, not an authentic text, so English was moved from language to english_version. The summary is written from the Chinese text and uses the translation's terms (for Article 16, 'AI risk taxonomy and assessment framework'). No stored page names the Legislative Yuan or the date of its third reading (reported in late December 2025): the sentence on it was removed from the notes, and issuing_body, which names the Legislative Yuan, is kept as published and raised as an open question.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 10 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18english_version: – → {"kind": "government translation", "url": "https://law.nstc.gov.tw/EngLawContent — the record had none; the NSTC's English translation of the Act is now stored at the recorded URL2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18notes: Promulgated 14 Jan 2026 and in force on promulgation (Art. 20). Agencies must re → Enacted in full (20 articles) by presidential order promulgated on 14 Jan 2026 ( — the sentence on the Legislative Yuan's passage in late December 2025 rests on no stored file and was removed; enactment in full by presidential order (history page), Article 6 (National AI Strategic Committee, as the translation names it) and Article 5(2) added; Article 18 restated more exactly2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18summary: Framework law (20 articles) setting seven principles for government AI policy: s → Framework law setting seven principles for government AI policy: sustainable dev — rewritten from the stored Chinese text, using the NSTC translation's terms: Article 5(1) protects life, body (身體), liberty or property, not 'safety'; Article 4's fourth principle is cybersecurity and safety (資安與安全); Article 16's framework is an 'AI risk taxonomy and assessment framework'; the duty to restrict or prohibit such uses comes from Article 16(2)2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18language: Chinese (Traditional), English → Chinese (Traditional) — the official text is Chinese only; the English text is the NSTC's translation (listed under 英譯法規清單 and stored as EngLawContent), so English moves to english_version2026-10-18-recheck-east-asia-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Taiwan AI Risk Taxonomy and Assessment Framework Taiwan · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Legislative Yuan; promulgated by the President (central competent authority: National Science and Technology Council). Artificial Intelligence Basic Act [Presidential Order Hua-Zong-Yi-Yi-Zi No. 11500001671 (華總一義字第11500001671號)]. 2026-01-14. https://law.nstc.gov.tw/LawContent.aspx?id=GL000592. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/TW-01/2026-10-18/official-2.html retrieved 2026-10-18 00:44:54 UTC, SHA-256 e9ad2c3f6f19e2c04c125570c1653b2cc60e9934d35524edf6103558d92282f5. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record TW-01.

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