# Ethiopia

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Ethiopia
- **ISO code**: ET
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Eastern Africa

## In brief

Ethiopia has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI policy (2024) as policy; AI Institute leads; data-protection law applies. Regulators include Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Ethiopia approved a National Artificial Intelligence Policy in 2024, implemented by the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute (established 2020), covering AI in agriculture, health, security and public services, talent, data and ethics; the Personal Data Protection Proclamation (2024) applies.

## Regulatory status

National AI policy (2024) as policy; AI Institute leads; data-protection law applies.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Policy (2024).

## Regulators

- Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute — National AI research and policy implementation body — https://www.aii.et/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Use the African Union Continental AI Strategy (2024) as the regional reference where a national instrument is missing.

## Official sources

- Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute — Government of Ethiopia — https://www.aii.et/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **National Artificial Intelligence Policy of Ethiopia** — Policy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ethiopia-national-ai-policy-2024
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ethiopia-national-ai-policy-2024.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/ethiopia
- **Official source**: https://www.aii.et/
- **Source document**: Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute
- **Published by**: Government of Ethiopia
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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