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RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBahrain7 Oct 2026
Bahraini MPs table bill to jail AI deepfake makers
Council of Representatives (Bahrain) — Five MPs headed by Dr Hisham Al Asheeri propose Bahrain AI regulation criminalising, under the Information Technology Crimes Law, knowingly faking or doctoring someone's picture, voice or footage with AI so it passes as real and violates privacy. Jail, a fine up to BD30,000, or both could follow, capped at five years and BD50,000 when content spreads or serves blackmail, threats or defamation. The synthetic-media offence is only proposed.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBahrain18 Sep 2026
Bahrain gives the public an AI assistant for cyber safety
National Cyber Security Centre (Bahrain) — Bahrain's National Cyber Security Centre has released Ask Amna, an AI cybersecurity awareness assistant, unveiled at Marassi Galleria with agency head Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa. Residents can quiz it on web scams, pick up safer habits and vet an address before tapping. The helper joins the Bu Rashid Family, a Bahraini cast created to carry public AI safety guidance.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain30 Jun 2026
Bahrain tests AI cameras to police littering and vandalism in parks
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture (Bahrain) — Bahrain's Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture is trialling AI surveillance cameras at some public sites to catch littering, vandalism and other offences, it said on 30 June 2026. Control rooms analyse the smart cameras' feeds; rollout will widen yearly across the ministry's 200-plus parks, gardens, beaches, seafronts and walking tracks. Guards cannot be stationed everywhere, the under-secretary noted.
Ministry of Interior — Bahrain's Ministry of Interior is trialling AI traffic enforcement using 500 smart cameras from Beyon Solutions. The system automatically catches speeding drivers, red-light violations, handheld phone use and unfastened seatbelts. Officials will assess results at these selected locations before deciding on a wider smart camera network across the kingdom.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain25 Aug 2025
Bahrain localises AI system for building violation monitoring
Survey and Land Registration Bureau (SLRB) — Aetosky and Bahrain's Survey and Land Registration Bureau have begun phase two of an AI building violation monitoring project, shifting from adopted technology toward full in-house control. Satellite imagery now underpins the Bureau's own detection of urban and natural change nationwide, rather than reliance on outside operation. A prior stage with the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture had already lifted efficiency by over 60% using this AI change detection system.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBahrain27 Jul 2025
Bahrain launches national AI policy and adopts GCC ethics manual
Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) — A four-pillar structure — legal compliance, adoption, public awareness, cross-border cooperation — now binds every government body under this Bahrain AI policy. Bahrain's Information & eGovernment Authority enforced it with the GCC's Guiding Manual on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Use, linking national AI regulation to Economic Vision 2030 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBahrain14 Jul 2025
Bahrain interior ministry wins award for AI addiction recovery app
Ministry of Interior — Bahrain's Ministry of Interior won the 2025 Bahrain Digital Content Award for its AI addiction recovery app, an AI-powered addiction treatment tool built by the Human Resources Directorate to track and boost drug recovery rates. The General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Evidence runs the wider scheme behind it, using artificial intelligence to study behavioural drivers and craft tailored interventions. It took the Government-Citizen Partnership category.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBahrain28 Apr 2025
iGA runs AI tools workshop for civil servants across directorates
Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) — Bahrain's iGA taught staff across its directorates AI tools for government productivity, running a workshop titled 'AI Tools for Employee Productivity' at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance. Its Innovation and Advanced Technologies Directorate led the session, covering prompt engineering and generative AI for civil servants alongside hands-on daily-task exercises.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBahrain9 Apr 2025
Tamkeen launches programme to train 50,000 Bahrainis in AI by 2030
Tamkeen (Labour Fund) — Tamkeen's AI training programme aims to give 50,000 Bahrainis artificial intelligence expertise by 2030. Bahrain's Labour Fund split the effort into three strands: executives get grounding in adopting AI strategically, ordinary staff learn automation and analytics tools day-to-day, and specialists build systems from scratch. Outside firms and domestic institutions jointly run the coursework, ordered into motion by the Chairman of Tamkeen's Board of Directors.
Bede Bahrain deploys generative AI chatbot and AI voice for customer service
Bede Bahrain — Bede Bahrain now offers AI customer service via two tools on Zain Bahrain's AI infrastructure: a WhatsApp/website generative AI chatbot and an AI-generated voice replacing IVR prompts. Callers hear naturally spoken, locally tuned guidance instead of scripted menus; chat users get human-like replies on products, services and application status. The aim: round-the-clock 24/7 customer engagement across both channels.
BisB launches Al Murshid AI platform for Sharia guidance
Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) — Bahrain Islamic Bank now answers Sharia questions instantly via Al Murshid, an AI Sharia advisory platform trained on 2,000-plus Fatwas its Sharia Supervisory Board has issued since 1979. Unveiled at the AAOIFI-IsDB conference, it extends AI in Islamic finance compliance across daily banking. The Digital Banker Global Islamic Finance Awards 2025 named it Best AI Initiative.
GFH launches voice-enabled AI assistant for investment app
GFH Financial Group — GFH Financial Group now offers the GCC's first fully voice-operated AI-powered investment assistant, letting customers speak directly to manage holdings instead of tapping through menus. Running on OpenAI's technology, the tool handles live portfolio tracking and real-time investment inquiries. This puts GFH ahead of rivals still limited to text-based conversational banking tools.
Bahrain Duty Free creates entire ad campaign with AI
Bahrain Duty Free — An AI advertising campaign from Bahrain Duty Free marks its maiden fully robotic rollout, spanning airport signage, social feeds, radio and street hoardings. Bahraini slang meets English through AI-generated marketing, replacing agency writing. Bahrain Airport Company and Bahrain International Airport jointly built it.
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Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.
The record is maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI: entries are added as they are found and verified, not on a schedule, and nothing is published without an open source behind it. It currently holds 4731 entries across 249 countries.
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