Armenia plans to establish a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence

The official portal of legal acts has published a draft law on renaming the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia.

If the document is adopted, the ministry will be called the Ministry of High-Tech Industry and Artificial Intelligence of the Republic of Armenia.

The explanatory note to the draft states that the renaming is related to the expansion of the ministry's responsibilities. In particular, the ministry will be responsible for formulating and implementing state policy in the field of development and implementation of artificial intelligence technologies, as well as cloud services.

The ministry was created on June 1, 2019, following a reorganization. Currently, it oversees the IT, telecommunications, defense industry, and space activities sectors. The ministry is headed by Mkhitair Ayrapetyan.

Source: armenpress