Artificial intelligence should become one of the key tools for modernizing Kazakhstan’s industrial sector. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stated this at the third meeting of the Council for Artificial Intelligence Development. Today, the country’s industrial sector is showing growth. In the first eight months of this year alone, output in the sector reached 46 trillion tenge, while manufacturing grew by almost 8.5%. The Head of State emphasized that this momentum must be maintained. To achieve this, labor productivity needs to be increased, the production base transformed, and the output of high-value-added products expanded. The President instructed a shift from targeted digitalization to the systematic implementation of AI at enterprises.
«Enterprises must take a fresh look at the entire production chain and identify where AI can deliver the greatest efficiency gains. The main criteria must be concrete results. The government, together with Samruk-Kazyna, should identify enterprises where key business processes will undergo comprehensive transformation based on artificial intelligence. These new technologies must be embedded directly into production management systems. The most successful models should be scaled up across the country,» President Tokayev noted.
The President also instructed the Government to strengthen the link between science and industry. Qazaq AI Research University should serve both as a center for training specialists and applied research. The next step, as Kassym-Jomart Tokayev noted, is to accelerate the adoption of ready-made AI solutions. The Government has been tasked with creating a unified mechanism, from defining a task at an enterprise to testing and deploying the technology in production. Particular emphasis was placed on industrial data. Sector-specific databases are planned with unified quality standards and secure access for developers. According to the Head of State, such data will help in developing homegrown technological solutions. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed dedicating the next meeting of the Council to the implementation of AI in the transport and logistics sector.
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