AI becomes board member of sovereign wealth fund in Kazakhstan

One of the board members of the Kazakhstan Artificial Intelligence Foundation is an artificial intelligence specialist, Ulykbek Shambulov, first deputy chairman of the State Technical Service of Kazakhstan and head of the National Coordination Center for Information Security, said during a panel discussion at the IV National Cybersecurity Forum in Baku, Report informs.

He noted that the president of Kazakhstan has put forward an initiative to transform the country into a fully digital state within three years: "In Kazakhstan, we recently held a referendum, and now we have a new Constitution. The document includes an article dedicated to the protection of personal data, making this a constitutional obligation, and this is extremely important for us. We have a separate Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and a sovereign wealth fund. All our national companies, such as KazMunayGas and Kazakhtelecom, are part of this sovereign wealth fund, and one of the board members is an artificial intelligence specialist."

He added that Kazakhstan is also taking steps in education, including integrating artificial intelligence into the school curriculum.