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Public Policy for Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems

السياسة العامة للاستخدام الآمن والأخلاقي لأنظمة الذكاء الاصطناعي

Record OM-01 · MTCIT Circular No. 11/2025

Issued by
Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT)
Jurisdiction
Oman
Level · region
National · Middle East & North Africa
Published / adopted
2025-04
Language
Arabic
Official identifier
MTCIT Circular No. 11/2025

Summary

Policy, issued by circular, for government units and regulated private institutions that develop or use AI systems, including generative AI, across their lifecycle. It sets ethical principles and duties for developer entities (documentation, ethical, social and environmental impact assessment before deployment, bias testing, independent technical audits, access control and encryption) and user entities (assessment before adoption, continuous monitoring and error correction, data classification). Systems must be secure, cause no physical or psychological harm, label generated content, explain decisions affecting individuals, and keep human supervision and control and complaint channels.

Language

English translation by Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) Open it. The Arabic text is authoritative.

Safety topics

human oversighttransparency & labellingaccountability & liabilityevaluation & testingpublic-sector use

Status notes

Transmitted by MTCIT Circular 11/2025 dated 10 Shawwal 1446 AH (9 April 2025) and issued by MTCIT's General Directorate of Policies and Governance; the MTCIT policy page lists it under 1 April 2025 and under the title 'General Policy for the Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems', while MTCIT's English version is titled 'Public Policy for Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems'. The policy applies from its approval and circulation by MTCIT and derives its ethical framework from the National Programme for AI and Advanced Digital Technologies (2024). It sets no penalties: MTCIT monitors compliance by state administrative units and reports the results to the Council of Ministers, and sectoral regulators monitor the institutions they supervise, align their own regulatory documents with the policy and may add provisions with the Ministry's approval.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.mtcit.gov.om/library-3/legislations-policies-8/policies-73/general-policy-for-the-safe-and-ethical-use-of-artificial-intelligence-systems-291

Secondary source: https://qanoon.om/p/2025/mtcit20259901/

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-14 10:15:42 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/OM-01/2026-10-14/official.html
Retrieved 2026-10-14 09:45:21 UTC
SHA-256 cb6cf9c3df0f225c8a68f6bf610add01fbb4dd76274cfa3eeff9893d652d51bd
Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/OM-01/2026-10-12/secondary.html
Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:32:53 UTC
SHA-256 6d885c67870fd94d70ea52d79df0d28fc9045e24345bc196cd70e3663cfa268f

Verification

A
The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-14 · official-url-fetched
Stored: the MTCIT library page for the policy (title, ministry, listing date of 1 April 2025, links to an Arabic and an English PDF); both MTCIT PDFs (the Arabic policy document, reached through two links that give the same file, and MTCIT's English version, 29 pages each, image scans read by OCR); the qanoon.om transcription of Circular 11/2025 with the attached Arabic policy, which states that it is not an official source; and the decree.om entry for the circular, whose English translation is behind a paywall. The OCR layer of the Arabic MTCIT PDF is unreadable, so the Arabic wording, original_title, the circular number and the exact date of 9 April 2025 rest on the qanoon.om transcription (the decree.om entry gives the same number and date); MTCIT's English version confirms the title, issuing directorate, April 2025, the effect clause and every provision summarised here, and the summary follows its terms ('AI System User Entity', 'AI System Developer Entity'). The English description on the MTCIT page ('The National AI Policy 2025 ... investment stimulation') does not describe this policy's content. Not confirmed by any stored copy: a public consultation on a draft 'National Artificial Intelligence Policy' in August 2024, and that the policy was not published in the Official Gazette.
Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-14: 8 field(s) supported, fixes applied to date_published.

History

  1. 2026-10-14english_version: – → {"kind": "government translation", "url": "https://www.mtcit.gov.om/web/content/ — MTCIT's English version of the policy (content/43446) is now stored: a government translation by the issuer2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  2. 2026-10-14notes: Transmitted by MTCIT Circular 11/2025 dated 10 Shawwal 1446 AH (9 April 2025); t → Transmitted by MTCIT Circular 11/2025 dated 10 Shawwal 1446 AH (9 April 2025) an — added the issuing directorate and both English titles; the attribution of the title 'Public Policy' to qanoon.om was wrong and is gone; added the effect clause, the monitoring and reporting duties and the regulators' role; claims resting on pages that are not stored moved to verification.note2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  3. 2026-10-14summary: Policy, issued by circular, for government units and regulated private entities → Policy, issued by circular, for government units and regulated private instituti — 'deployers' and 'developers' replaced by the terms of the policy as MTCIT's English version renders them ('AI System User Entity', 'AI System Developer Entity'; Arabic الجهة المستخدمة / الجهة المطورة); 'independent technical audits' and 'label' as in MTCIT's English; 'human supervision' completed as 'human supervision and control'; scope rendered as government units and regulated private institutions2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  4. 2026-10-14date_published: 2025-04-09 → 2025-04 — pipeline run 2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes (refresh), candidate OM-012026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  5. 2026-10-14title: General Policy for the Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems → Public Policy for Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems — now the title of MTCIT's own English version of the policy ('Public Policy for Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems', cover page); the 'General Policy' wording of the MTCIT library page is kept in notes2026-10-14-refresh-translation-fixes · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
  6. 2026-10-14language: Arabic; English title and summary on the MTCIT site → Arabic — The translation check found the official text in this language only; the English texts are translations (recorded in english_version where stored).manual-2026-10-14 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Citation

Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT). Public Policy for Safe and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems [MTCIT Circular No. 11/2025]. 2025-04. https://www.mtcit.gov.om/library-3/legislations-policies-8/policies-73/general-policy-for-the-safe-and-ethical-use-of-artificial-intelligence-systems-291. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-14 (level A). Local copy archive/OM-01/2026-10-14/official.html retrieved 2026-10-14 09:45:21 UTC, SHA-256 cb6cf9c3df0f225c8a68f6bf610add01fbb4dd76274cfa3eeff9893d652d51bd. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record OM-01.

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