# Kuwait

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Kuwait
- **ISO code**: KW
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Asia / Gulf Cooperation Council

## In brief

Kuwait has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy 2025–2028 as policy; CITRA guidelines; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT), Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA). Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Kuwait launched a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2028 through the Central Agency for Information Technology and the Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority, focused on government services, talent, data and ethical AI, and CITRA issued guidelines on AI use; the Data Privacy Protection Regulation applies.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy 2025–2028 as policy; CITRA guidelines; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy 2025–2028.

## Regulators

- Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) — National AI strategy — https://www.cait.gov.kw/
- Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA) — ICT regulation and data-privacy regulation — https://www.citra.gov.kw/

## 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.

## Official sources

- Central Agency for Information Technology — Government of Kuwait — https://www.cait.gov.kw/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Kuwait National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2028** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/kuwait-national-ai-strategy-2025-2028
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/kuwait-national-ai-strategy-2025-2028.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/kuwait
- **Official source**: https://www.cait.gov.kw/
- **Source document**: Central Agency for Information Technology
- **Published by**: Government of Kuwait
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **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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