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Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna has unveiled an AI-generated independent board director, potentially the first of its kind in Central Asia. The system, called SKAI (Samruk-Kazyna Artificial Intelligence), will be able to vote on decisions concerning the fund’s activities, like strategic, financial and governance. Trained on internal documents dating back to 2008, the machine director is designed to support more accurate and balanced decision-making.

SKAI runs in a closed circuit on Kazakhtelecom’s Al Farabium supercomputer, the second most powerful in the country. It relies on the Kazakh-language model Alem LLM, and allows data to be processed locally without leaving Kazakhstan.

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The AI director was presented to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during the 2025 Digital Bridge forum in Astana. — the largest tech forum in Central Eurasia.

The forum comes on the heels of the UN General Assembly, where President Tokayev reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s commitment to the Global Dialogue on AI Governance. It is a platform designed to bring states and stakeholders together to develop international guardrails for AI management.

Kazakhstan as the regional technological bridge

Kazakhstan is positioning itself as an early adopter of artificial intelligence in the region, aiming to become a fully digital economy within three years.

The country is working to adopt the Digital Code, which will set the framework for the digitalization of the economy, education, healthcare, and public administration. Meanwhile, the law on artificial intelligence is under review in parliament and will soon be forwarded to the Senate for