In today’s (Wednesday, December 5) public meeting, the represeatives of the Islamic Council approved Article 13 of the report of the Industries and Mines Commission on the “National Plan for Artificial Ielligence”; A material that brings the artificial ielligence financing structure of the coury io a new stage.
Establishme of the National Artificial Ielligence Developme Fund
According to the resolution of the parliame, the “National Fund for the Developme of Artificial Ielligence” is established as a subsidiary of the National Organization of Artificial Ielligence. The initial capital of this fund is 100 thousand billion Rials, which is supposed to be provided in the form of annual budget bills in three years.
The statute of the fund, including the elemes, operation mode, powers and monitoring mechanisms, must be finalized within three mohs from the effective date of the law, with the proposal of the National Artificial Ielligence Organization and the approval of the Council of Ministers.
Allocation of 25% of innovation fund resources to AI
According to this resolution, the Innovation and Prosperity Fund is also obliged to transfer at least 25% of the resources under its corol to the National Artificial Ielligence Developme Fund with the approval of the Board of Trustees.
Also, the fund can benefit from the coributions and investmes of natural and legal persons, governme companies and non-governmeal public institutions.
Governme budget assignmes
The represeatives of the governme were obliged to predict the budget of the National Artificial Ielligence Organization in the form of an independe row and according to the missions defined in this law in the annual budget bills.
Inceives for the private sector
Private sector investme in the developme of artificial ielligence infrastructure, including things such as:
processing infrastructure,
developme of algorithms,
datasets,
reference laboratories,
will be subject to the benefits of Clause “T” of Article 11 of the Knowledge-Based Production Jump Law; An issue that increases the investme motivation of technology companies.
Allocation of 10% of operators’ revenues to AI
One of the importa clauses of this article is the duty of the governme to annually allocate 10% of the credits approved by the Ministry of Communications from the place of “royalty and governme share of operators’ income” to the National Artificial Ielligence Developme Fund.
These resources should be spe on developing processing infrastructure, subsidizing processing services, supporting artificial ielligence service providers and start-up businesses in this field.
Requiring devices to program AI
Finally, all executive bodies were required to predict their budget needs for the implemeation of tasks related to artificial ielligence in the annual budget lines and within the approved appropriations limit.
