Abstract
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) creates new opportunities for public and economic development while increasing the risks of criminal misuse. The purpose of this study is to compare national and foreign approaches to preventing offenses in which AI is used as a substantial instrument and to identify mechanisms applicable to Kazakhstan. The research employs comparative legal, formal legal, systemic-structural, analysis and synthesis, and content-analysis methods. Its materials include Kazakhstan's legislation and strategic documents, international instruments, and approaches used in the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and the Republic of Korea. The findings show that AI-enabled crime should be distinguished from cybercrime generally and that effective prevention increasingly combines risk-based regulation, technological audits, algorithmic transparency, data protection, institutional coordination, public-private cooperation, and specialized law-enforcement training. The study proposes a coordinated preventive model for Kazakhstan integrating criminal justice policy with cybersecurity, AI governance, data protection, and human-rights safeguards. Its practical value lies in recommendations on interagency coordination, technological capacity, preventive cooperation, and statistical recording of AI-enabled offenses.