EveryAILaw.comDoes Law on Artificial Intelligence require Bias & Discrimination Prevention?
Kazakhstan • enforcing
Yes — 1 provision
Requirements at a glance
This regulation imposes 7 specific requirements for Bias & Discrimination Prevention across 1 provision:
- Harm-linked manipulation — Prohibits subconscious, manipulative, or other methods that distort an individual's behaviour and limit informed choice or compel decisions that may cause harm or threaten harm
- Harmful vulnerability exploitation — Prohibits exploiting moral or physical vulnerability due to age, disability, social status, or other circumstances for the purpose of causing or threatening harm
- Social evaluation — Prohibits evaluating or classifying individuals or groups over time by social behaviour or known, assumed, or predicted personal characteristics, except as provided by Kazakhstan law
- Unlawful personal-data processing — Prohibits collection and processing of personal data in violation of Kazakhstan personal-data law
- Biometric discrimination — Prohibits biometric classification that infers race, political views, religion, or other criteria for the purpose of discrimination
- Emotion detection — Prohibits determining an individual's emotions without consent, except as provided by Kazakhstan law
- Unlawful outputs — Prohibits creating and distributing AI-system outputs prohibited by Kazakhstan law
Prohibited AI Practices
Article 17(3) prohibits creating or operating AI systems in Kazakhstan when they possess one of seven listed functionalities. The clauses are conditional: manipulative methods must distort behaviour and constrain informed choice or force a decision capable of causing harm; vulnerability exploitation requires a harmful purpose or threat; social evaluation has statutory exceptions; biometric classification must be for discrimination; and emotion detection has consent and statutory exceptions.
Penalties qualification: Article 30 states that violations incur liability established by the laws of Kazakhstan. The AI Act itself does not set an Article 17-specific MCI fine or suspension rule.
Requirements
| Requirement | Details |
|---|---|
| Harm-linked manipulation | Prohibits subconscious, manipulative, or other methods that distort an individual's behaviour and limit informed choice or compel decisions that may cause harm or threaten harm |
| Harmful vulnerability exploitation | Prohibits exploiting moral or physical vulnerability due to age, disability, social status, or other circumstances for the purpose of causing or threatening harm |
| Social evaluation | Prohibits evaluating or classifying individuals or groups over time by social behaviour or known, assumed, or predicted personal characteristics, except as provided by Kazakhstan law |
| Unlawful personal-data processing | Prohibits collection and processing of personal data in violation of Kazakhstan personal-data law |
| Biometric discrimination | Prohibits biometric classification that infers race, political views, religion, or other criteria for the purpose of discrimination |
| Emotion detection | Prohibits determining an individual's emotions without consent, except as provided by Kazakhstan law |
| Unlawful outputs | Prohibits creating and distributing AI-system outputs prohibited by Kazakhstan law |
Sources: Official current text, Adilet