{"name":"Applied AI in Syria — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Syria, 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/syria","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":"Syria","slug":"syria","iso2":"SY","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"counts":{"entries":7,"deployments":1,"evidenceImpact":4,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":0,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":7},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Syria","org":"Damascus University","text":"Ada mirrored the prescribing doctor outright on 82% of 100 complaints and partly on 17% more, beating Symptomate's 68% and 25%, in AI symptom checker testing across five Damascus community pharmacies. Treatment advice matched the physician 49% of the time for Ada, 37% for Symptomate. Damascus University staff logged differing caution, Symptomate sending 53% of visitors to a doctor against Ada's 43%; the diagnostic app comparison stays an unrefereed preprint.","date":"2026-08-10","source":"https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-10297530/v1"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Syria","org":"Syrian Private University","text":"Gemini 1.5 Pro answered 86.1% correctly and ChatGPT-4o 60.8% when AI audiogram interpretation met specialist verdicts on pure-tone charts from 309 people aged six to 90. Syrian Private University clinicians ran the trial at Damascus Hospital, or Al-Mujtahid Hospital, submitting each chart as raw figures; 274 proved deaf to some degree. Cohen's kappa reached 0.848 for Gemini against 0.578 for ChatGPT, and machine hearing-loss triage belongs under supervision, never alone.","date":"2026-06-19","source":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13380955/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Syria","org":"Damascus University","text":"Damascus University engineers built AI hysteroscopy image classification separating healthy endometrium from endometrial polyps and endometritis in fertility patients. Four transfer-learned architectures, VGG-16, VGG-19, DenseNet-121 and EfficientNet-B0, were fitted to 1500 annotated stills drawn from 200 procedures, scoring 85 to 89%. DenseNet-121 led at 93% sensitivity, 98.8% AUC on polyps, 90% precision on inflammation; the deep learning decision aid awaits outside datasets and pathology-confirmed labels.","date":"2026-06-06","source":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57032-0"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Syria","org":"Damascus University","text":"AI use among medical students in Syria runs at 57% for study preparation and 40% for coursework on a 400-person sample of undergraduates and graduates. Clinical years outpaced graduates at revising and drafting. Optimism outran self-interest: 76% expected better residency training, 71.8% wanted institutional rules, yet 25.5% foresaw career gain, with women and researchers voicing ethical doubts. Fieldwork behind this student AI adoption ran April and May 2025 at public medical faculties.","date":"2026-05-19","source":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13186531/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Syria","org":"Latakia University","text":"Latakia University produced an AI fisheries stock assessment model inferring a Goldblotch Grouper's age and breeding status from total length alone, replacing monitoring war destroyed in Syria. Training used 150 Epinephelus costae from six coastal spots, March 2024 to March 2025, scales yielding age and first breeding at 30 cm. Scores hit R = 0.9995 on age and 100% on maturity, the largest specimen 74.3 cm and 12 years; the neural network stock tool suits unsurveyed waters.","date":"2026-05-19","source":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13196713/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Syria","org":"Damascus University","text":"AI adoption in pharmacy practice reaches 55% of a 400-strong Syrian sample, halved between 200 dispensing chemists and 200 undergraduates, ChatGPT the best-known name at 53%. Practising chemists outscored undergraduates on knowledge, 5.7% versus 2.5%, yet undergraduates proved readier to adopt later; those dispensing under two or beyond six years used AI least. Writing from Damascus University, where curbed connectivity limits reach, the authors urge rules and tuition before everyday pharmacist AI use. Fieldwork ran September to November 2024.","date":"2026-03-10","source":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12979924/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Syria","role":"Doctor","org":"University of Aleppo","text":"Tebyan now runs live at Aleppo University Hospital, the first clinical AI system inside a Syrian public university hospital. University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine students and graduates coded it themselves, turning lab test results into structured PDF summaries and giving ward teams an AI clinical assistant for faster diagnoses.","date":"2025-08","source":"https://menastartupdigest.com/syrias-university-of-aleppo-launches-tebyan-first-clinically-deployed-ai-system/"}]}