Artificial Intelligence Law Proposal (Grand National Assembly of Turkey)

• Authority: Government of Turkey
• Jurisdiction: Other countries
• Collections: Miscellaneous documents
• Most recent activity: Proposed
• Most recent activity date: 2024-06-24

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Governance failure

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation
• Unequal performance across groups
• Compromise of privacy
• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has minimal to good coverage of approximately 8-10 subdomains, with primary focus on AI system security (2.2), lack of transparency (7.4), governance failure prevention (6.5), and lack of robustness (7.3). The document establishes a regulatory framework emphasizing safety, transparency, fairness, accountability, and privacy principles, with risk assessment requirements and enforcement mechanisms.

Sector coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing
• Trade, Transportation & Utilities
• Information
• Finance & Insurance
• Real Estate, Rental & Leasing
• Professional & Technical Services
• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Management, Administrative & Support Services
• Educational Services
• Health Care & Social Assistance
• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
• Accommodation, Food & Other Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This is a horizontal regulation that applies across all economic sectors. The law governs AI systems used by any 'natural or legal persons' who develop, deploy, use, import, or distribute AI systems, without limiting application to specific industries. All sectors are potentially governed.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative proposal with mandatory obligations, enforcement mechanisms, and substantial financial penalties for non-compliance.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Grand National Assembly of Turkey; Government of Turkey
• Summary: The document is titled 'Artificial Intelligence Law Proposal (Grand National Assembly of Turkey)' and the authority is listed as 'Government of Turkey', indicating this is a legislative proposal from the Turkish government to its parliament.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer, AI_Infrastructure_Provider
• Entities: providers; deployers; users; importers; distributors
• Summary: The law explicitly applies to multiple categories of AI actors including those who develop, deploy, import, distribute, and use AI systems, as well as affected persons.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: supervisory authorities; President
• Summary: The document establishes supervisory authorities with enforcement powers and assigns execution authority to the President of Turkey.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: supervisory authorities
• Summary: Supervisory authorities are explicitly granted monitoring and compliance detection powers under the law.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Plan and Design
• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document covers multiple AI lifecycle stages with primary focus on deployment (registration requirements for high-risk systems), operation and monitoring (compliance supervision), and verification/validation (conformity assessment). It also addresses design principles and development through risk assessment requirements.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions 'artificial intelligence systems' throughout and provides a definition of artificial intelligence. It does not specifically mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds. The focus is on AI systems broadly defined.