# AI Ethics Principles

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Saudi Arabia
- **Instrument type**: Guidance
- **Status**: Guidance
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)
- **Adopted**: 2025-05-01

## In brief

AI Ethics Principles is a non-binding guidance of Saudi Arabia, issued by Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). Its current status is guidance. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

SDAIA's AI Ethics Principles set out ethical principles and associated controls for entities developing, deploying or affected by AI systems in Saudi Arabia, covering fairness, privacy and security, humanity, social and environmental benefit, reliability and safety, transparency, and accountability. The document assigns roles and responsibilities and marks certain controls as binding for public entities. The 2025 edition updates the September 2023 version 1.0.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). Oversight: SDAIA issues and updates the principles and oversees adoption by public entities. Stated purpose: Ensure responsible, safe and rights-respecting AI development and use in the Kingdom.

## Key dates

2023-09-01: AI Ethics Principles version 1.0 issued (September 2023); 2025-05-01: Updated 2025 edition published (document dated May 2025)

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0163 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0163; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/saudi-arabia-ai-ethics-principles
- **Official source**: https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Documents/ai-principles.pdf
- **Source document**: AI Ethics Principles
- **Published by**: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **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/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "AI Ethics Principles" [AIPT-POL-0163, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0163 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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