TaiwanArtificial Intelligence Basic Act (人工智慧基本法)
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In force.
An AI governance rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 22 September 2026.
What it requires
- This Act does not itself impose an operative disclosure, labeling, or risk-classification duty on an AI developer or deployer; it directs the government to bring existing law into conformity with, or adopt new rules under, its principles within two years of this Act's effective date.
- Where a sector regulator adopts a binding rule under this Act's risk-taxonomy mandate, follow that regulator's own implementing regulation for the specific duty it imposes rather than this Act's own text.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National Science and Technology Council (central level), with special municipality, county, or city governments at the local level
What it reaches
Obligation class
Governance
What this law does
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This 20-article framework act sets the government's guiding principles for AI development and application (Article 4: sustainable development and well-being, human autonomy, privacy protection and data governance, cybersecurity and safety, transparency and explainability, fairness and non-discrimination, and accountability), designates the National Science and Technology Council as the central AI competent authority with local governments at the municipal or county level (Article 2), and directs the Ministry of Digital Affairs to build a risk taxonomy and assessment framework that sector regulators use to write risk-based management regulations (Article 16).
For high-risk AI application, Article 17 directs the government to clarify liability attribution and establish relief, compensation, or insurance mechanisms, rather than creating those mechanisms itself.
Article 18 gives the government two years from this Act's effective date to bring existing law into conformity with it or enact rules it requires, so a disclosure, crawler or training-data, agent-transaction, or automated-decision duty for a specific AI activity is not yet a duty this Act itself imposes.
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