The research aims to determine the role of artificial intelligence (AI) among the main directions for the sustainable economic development of industry in Central Asia and identify opportunities for optimizing these directions in the Kyrgyz Republic as a country in Central Asia. The authors conducted a trend analysis of the economic development of the industrial sector in the Kyrgyz Republic from 1990 to 2023, alongside a factor analysis of this development in Central Asia for 2025. Additionally, the authors identified a Central Asian model of sustainable industrial development. This model reveals the logic behind state regulation of the industrial economy in the countries of Central Asia, which constitutes its theoretical contribution. Based on the model, the authors conclude that AI plays a significant role among the main avenues for sustainable industrial development, with prospects for state regulation in Central Asia that also include expanding industrial credit financing, increasing national electricity production, and developing a low-carbon industry. The authors developed practical recommendations to enhance state regulation of the industrial economy in the Kyrgyz Republic in its selected key areas. Implementing these recommendations will ensure a fuller realization of the potential for sustainable industrial development in the Kyrgyz Republic in the coming years.