{"name":"Applied AI in Lebanon — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Lebanon, 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/lebanon","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Lebanon","slug":"lebanon","iso2":"LB","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"counts":{"entries":12,"deployments":5,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":3,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":12},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Lebanon","role":"TV journalist","org":"MTV Lebanon","text":"MTV Lebanon brought AI fact-checking to political programme Sar El Wa2et from season nine's 17 September 2026 premiere. Marcel Ghanem's editors prepare shows with the Rudy Hachach-designed platform, whose on-air claim verification tests guests' assertions live and shows viewers sourced verdicts.","date":"2026-10-05","source":"https://en.libnanews.com/mtv-integrates-artificial-intelligence-with-sar-el-wa2et-the-preparation-of-emissions-for-on-line-fact-finding/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lebanon","org":"Government of Lebanon, with the UAE Government Experience Exchange Programme","text":"Lebanon's government will put one million people through AI skills training under the One Million Lebanese AI Experts initiative, run with the UAE's Government Experience Exchange Programme. Classes cover generative AI and prompt engineering for work and home. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam revealed this generative AI course at the 81st UN General Assembly in New York; no start date or delivery partner is named.","date":"2026-09-25","source":"https://www.emirates247.com/world/abdullah-bin-zayed-meets-lebanese-pm-in-new-york-one-million-lebanese-ai-experts-initiative-launched-under-government-experience-exchange-programme/6022"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Lebanon","org":"Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants","text":"The Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants ran an AI qualification for auditors in Beirut, 8-11 September 2026, with the Arab Federation of Accountants and Auditors. Kamal Shehade, Minister of State for Administrative Development and Artificial Intelligence, gave his patronage. The Jordanian Association of Certified Public Accountants attended the artificial intelligence diploma opening.","date":"2026-09-08","source":"https://albaladnews.net/article/473242"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Lebanon","org":"Lebanese University","text":"The Lebanese University has now run 430 professors and researchers through AI training for university faculty, 260 of them in a second round split across 13 groups. The courses cover applying artificial intelligence in teaching and research, and sit inside Supporting Integration of AI in Higher Education in the Middle East, a French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs project reaching 13 universities across Lebanon, Egypt and Palestine. A third and closing round was set for early September.","date":"2026-07-28","source":"https://www.ul.edu.lb/en/node/6453"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Lebanon","role":"News presenter","org":"Annahar Media Group","text":"Annahar Media Group aired a bulletin read entirely by AI news anchors in Beirut on 27 July 2026. Digital presenter Noor interacted directly with digital correspondent Nahar, billed as a first for Lebanon and the Arab world. Points Information Technology, a Lebanese firm led by Bilal Kassassir, runs the strategy.","date":"2026-07-27","source":"https://www.safirpress.net/2026/07/28/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%91%D9%84-%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%84-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B0%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8F%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84-%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%91%D9%8A%D9%92%D9%86/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Lebanon","role":"Journalist","org":"Annahar Media Group","text":"Annahar Media Group has equipped its newsroom in Lebanon with an AI news correspondent, Nahar, assembled with Points Information Technology. Nahar sweeps thousands of outlets within moments, follows world affairs, weighs rival accounts, renders languages and condenses documents. Editor-in-chief Nayla Tueni cast the AI reporter as a colleague enlarging what journalists achieve.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://www.arabnews.com/node/2651419/media"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Lebanon","org":"Holy Family University, Batroun","text":"AI in hospitals stopped predicting resilience once rival factors entered the equation — p = 0.143, despite a raw r = 0.340. Holy Family University in Batroun canvassed 412 healthcare professionals across Beirut and South Lebanon on enduring armed conflict. Crisis protocols, NGOs cooperation and security challenges survived instead; the authors credit institutional preparedness and joint working, rating artificial intelligence integration promising yet limited alone.","date":"2026-07-07","source":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42415044/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Lebanon","org":"Microsoft AI Economy Institute","text":"AI adoption in Lebanon hit 27.3% of the working-age population during the first quarter of 2026, on the Microsoft AI Economy Institute ranking — above 19.1% worldwide and 22% across Arab countries. Lebanon sits 33rd of 147 nations, fifth of 16 Arab states. The gauge tracks generative AI use, derived from anonymised telemetry Microsoft harvests within its ecosystems and calibrates for internet penetration and device share.","date":"2026-03","source":"https://byblos.byblosbank.com/files/Library/Assets/Gallery/Publications/LebanonThisWeek/Lebanon%20this%20Week%20912.pdf"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lebanon","org":"Ministry of State for Technology and Artificial Intelligence (MITAI)","text":"Kamal Shehadi released Lebanon's first draft framework for Lebanon AI regulation, covering artificial intelligence use nationwide as a national AI framework for coming years. A tiered-risk model shapes coverage of health, finance, education and public services, backed by five years of pilots, capacity-building and joined-up government digital systems.","date":"2025-12-22","source":"https://www.imlebanon.org/2025/12/22/kamal-chehade-32/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lebanon","role":"Customs officer","org":"Ministry of Finance / Lebanese Customs","text":"Sixty containers an hour: that is the throughput now claimed for new AI cargo scanners customs teams are using at Beirut Port, under a wider reform drive in Lebanon. An AI programme reads each container's contents, keeps images on file for six months, and forwards scans to foreign customs agencies, Finance Minister Yassine Jaber said. Phase one of the plan covers this 60-container-per-hour equipment; later stages bring an integrated IT system and AI-based risk analysis.","date":"2025-11-20","source":"http://lebeconomy.com/466906/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Lebanon","org":"Council of Ministers, Lebanon","text":"Lebanese ministers backed a bill making the State Ministry a full Ministry of Technology and Artificial Intelligence (MITAI), pending parliament vote. Kamal Shehadi said it will set national AI strategy, build rules, launch one public platform, fight cybercrime — central to Lebanon AI regulation and artificial intelligence governance.","date":"2025-09-16","source":"https://economics.creditlibanais.com/Article/212886"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Lebanon","role":"Doctors","org":"Al Hamshari Hospital","text":"Rhazes AI, a UK-Qatar startup, is running AI clinical scribes at Al Hamshari Hospital near Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a Palestine Red Crescent Society site. Live transcripts, diagnostic prompts and finished structured notes now lighten workloads where staff face 60 patients daily. A trial lasting through November 2025 checks whether the AI medical documentation tool speeds paperwork and boosts physician confidence and patient flow.","date":"2025-08","source":"https://www.unite.ai/ai-scribes-arrive-in-lebanon-how-rhazes-ai-is-redefining-frontline-healthcare/"}]}