{"name":"Applied AI in Afghanistan — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Afghanistan, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/afghanistan","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-15","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Afghanistan","slug":"afghanistan","iso2":"AF","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":3,"deployments":1,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":0,"industries":2,"countries":1,"linked":3},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Afghanistan","role":"Radiographer","org":"Badghis Provincial Hospital","text":"The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funded an AI-powered X-ray machine worth more than $72,000 at Qala-e-Naw's provincial hospital in Badghis province. It is meant to spot tuberculosis early and improve disease diagnosis. Hospital officials expect AI-assisted X-ray screening to ease shortages of doctors and medical equipment.","date":"2026-10-13","source":"https://en.didpress.com/38840/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Afghanistan","text":"Only 1.6% of 256 healthcare staff surveyed across Kabul City hospitals and clinics showed good AI knowledge in healthcare, against 44.7% poor and 53.9% insufficient, with attitudes running ahead of understanding at 47.3% positive, 37.5% somewhat agreeing and 15.2% negative. The picture for AI in Afghan healthcare is limited knowledge but favourable attitudes: 82.0% had never attended an AI conference and 57.8% learned what they knew from social media. Fieldwork for the study, published in Annals of Medicine and Surgery, ran January to February 2025.","date":"2026-07-09","source":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13461032/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Afghanistan","text":"1,154 respondents across 32 provinces went into a national survey of AI use in Afghanistan, finding 88% of young Afghans familiar with artificial intelligence and 66.6% of them regular users. Media outlet Salam Afghanistan and Salam Watandar Radio's eight-month fieldwork, split 50.6% men and 49.4% women, found 84.1% had sought AI advice at least once and 82% now lean less on friends and relatives, with 58.1% uneasy about machines making decisions.","date":"2026-05-04","source":"https://pajhwok.com/2026/05/04/survey-finds-widespread-ai-use-among-afghan-youth/"}]}