Regulation
SDAIA AI ethics principles and AI use cases
Saudi Arabia's national AI ethics principles, applied across sectors including finance and government.
Read the source text (Saudi Data and AI Authority)Depends on design under the EU AI Act
The tier depends on how the system is used, for example whether it decides on access to an essential service.
- AI assistant for hospital lobby questions, symptom routing and wayfinding
A guide that answers directory questions and gives directions is a limited risk system with transparency duties (Article 50). If it assesses symptoms in a way that influences care, it can count as medical device software, which the AI Act treats as high risk through Article 6(1) and Annex I when the device needs a third party conformity assessment. Whether symptom routing is medical device software depends on its intended purpose, so assess it under the EU MDR or UK medical device rules before launch.
- AI crowd density and flow monitoring for venues, transport hubs and pilgrimage sites
Counting people and estimating flow without identifying or categorizing individuals is not listed in Annex III. The tier changes with the design: remote biometric identification of people in a crowd falls under Annex III point 1(a), biometric categorization under point 1(b), and use by or on behalf of law enforcement to assess or profile individuals under point 6. Real time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement is prohibited under Article 5(1)(h), with narrow listed exceptions. France ran its Paris 2024 trial under a national law that authorized eight listed situations, after an opinion from the data protection authority CNIL, according to the French press.
Minimal risk under the EU AI Act
No specific obligations under the EU AI Act beyond AI literacy; voluntary codes apply.
- AI assistant for Shariah compliance screening and review
An internal assistant that screens contracts for compliance with Shariah standards is not listed in Annex III: it assesses contracts, structures and securities, not the creditworthiness of natural persons (Annex III point 5(b)). If a customer facing version answers product questions, it must disclose that people are interacting with an AI system under Article 50(1). National Islamic finance regulators set their own Shariah governance expectations.