Generative Artificial Intelligence Guidelines (for Government and for Public)

Record SA-02 · SDAIA-P116E (government version); SDAIA-P115E (public version)

Issued by: Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA)
Jurisdiction: Saudi Arabia
Level · region: National · Middle East & North Africa
Published / adopted: 2025-05
Language: Arabic, English
Official identifier: SDAIA-P116E (government version); SDAIA-P115E (public version)

Summary

Two companion SDAIA guidelines on generative AI. The government version governs the use of government data in GenAI tools: entities must apply SDAIA's AI Ethics Principles, must not use GenAI for critical decisions affecting individuals or the Kingdom's vital interests, must human-review outputs, must not enter restricted or classified data, and must rate tools on a four-level risk scale (little or no, limited, high with conformity assessment, unacceptable); data offices approve tools and audit training data, and AI-generated content is to be disclosed. The public version sets seven principles, including reliability and safety with human-oversight triggers, and lists risks and mitigations.

Safety topics

public-sector userisk-based classificationhuman oversighttransparency & labellinggeneral-purpose / frontier AI

Status notes

SDAIA lists the two documents among its laws and regulations as two versions of one 'Generative AI Guideline', the first for government employees and the second for the public. Both PDFs carry 'May 2025' and 'Version Number 1' in their document-control tables, with document type 'Regulatory Documents'. The government version describes its rules on government data as mandatory and says it may be updated as needed; the public version serves as guidance for developers and users of generative AI in the Kingdom. Both apply SDAIA's AI Ethics Principles (SA-01); SDAIA's deepfakes guidelines (SA-03) refer to the public version.

Sources

Open the official source https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Files/GenAIGuidelinesForGovernmentENCompressed.pdf

Secondary source: https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Files/GenerativeAIPublicEN.pdf

Local copy

Archived. Last attempt 2026-10-18 04:06:23 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/SA-02/2026-10-11/official.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:45:51 UTC

SHA-256 fb2427075540afee124b5bd8a9e497ed6a0a99db54ecfe64c6900d451ee5a2cb

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/SA-02/2026-10-11/secondary.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-11 19:46:26 UTC

SHA-256 c4a2451c19eb3e782d23922fd4c5a1c7e8bcb92e95c37c9509ba6bfa57739fb9

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 18 Oct 2026. Stored: both English PDFs from sdaia.gov.sa (government version, 30 pages; public version, 22 pages; snapshots of 11 Oct 2026, unchanged on 18 Oct 2026) and SDAIA's laws and regulations page (18 Oct 2026), whose link to the public version gives the same file (same SHA-256). They confirm the titles, SDAIA as issuer, the listing as two versions of one guideline, May 2025 and version 1 in the document-control tables, the document numbers, the scope, the rules for government data, the four-level risk scale and the seven principles. The Arabic editions are not stored. Third-party trackers (Digital Policy Alert) report first releases of the government guideline on 10 January 2024 and of the public guideline on 11 January 2024; no official source for those dates is stored, and the May 2025 editions do not refer to earlier versions.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 5 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18notes: Both PDFs carry 'May 2025' and 'Version Number 1' in their document-control tabl → SDAIA lists the two documents among its laws and regulations as two versions of — rewritten from the two PDFs and SDAIA's stored page (two versions of one guideline); the January 2024 first-release dates (third-party trackers only) moved to verification.note2026-10-18-recheck-mena-africa-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Saudi AI Ethics Principles (SDAIA, 2025 edition) Saudi Arabia · Published (non-binding, current)

SDAIA Deepfakes Guidelines Saudi Arabia · Published (non-binding, current)

Citation

Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA). Generative Artificial Intelligence Guidelines (for Government and for Public) [SDAIA-P116E (government version); SDAIA-P115E (public version)]. 2025-05. https://sdaia.gov.sa/en/SDAIA/about/Files/GenAIGuidelinesForGovernmentENCompressed.pdf. Status: Published (non-binding, current); verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/SA-02/2026-10-11/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-11 19:45:51 UTC, SHA-256 fb2427075540afee124b5bd8a9e497ed6a0a99db54ecfe64c6900d451ee5a2cb. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record SA-02.

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