Samruk-Kazyna, Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund, has appointed an artificial intelligence system to its board of directors, giving it voting rights and decision-making authority.
The neural network, known as SKAI (Samruk-Kazyna Artificial Intelligence), was formally introduced on Thursday at the Digital Bridge international forum in Astana, where it was presented to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. According to the company, SKAI is the first independent digital board member in the region.
SKAI will review and analyze the fund’s internal and external documents, along with board decisions dating back to 2008 and other archived materials, to support what the company describes as more informed and data-driven governance.
Developers emphasized security safeguards. The system operates within a closed loop on Kazakhtelecom’s Al Farabium supercomputer, the country’s second-most powerful. It runs on Alem LLM, a large language model trained in Kazakh, which enables local data processing without information leaving Kazakhstan.
