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title: "Saudi AI Policy and Regulation"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/topics/policy"
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# Saudi AI Policy and Regulation

The rules that shape AI in Saudi Arabia: the national data and AI strategy, the Personal Data Protection Law, AI ethics principles and the regulators that enforce them.

- 2026-04-03 — [SDAIA opens consultation on draft Responsible AI Policy with four risk tiers](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/sdaia-responsible-ai-policy-draft-2026)
- 2026-03-10 — [Cabinet designates 2026 as Saudi Arabia's 'Year of Artificial Intelligence'](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/year-of-ai-2026-cabinet)
- 2026-02-22 — [Saudi Arabia becomes first Arab country to join the Global Partnership on AI](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/saudi-joins-gpai-2026)
- 2025-11-19 — [US approves up to 35,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips each for HUMAIN and G42](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/us-approves-35000-blackwell-chips-humain-2025)
- 2025-11-18 — [US and Saudi Arabia sign strategic AI memorandum of understanding](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/us-saudi-ai-mou-2025)
- 2025-06 — [MCIT and SDAIA issue National Data Center Strategy targeting 1.5GW by 2030](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/national-data-center-strategy-2025)
- 2025-04-14 — [CST publishes draft Global AI Hub Law with 'data embassies'](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/global-ai-hub-law-draft-2025)
- 2024-09-12 — [SDAIA publishes national AI Adoption Framework](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/ai-adoption-framework-2024)
- 2024-09-11 — [SDAIA announces UNESCO Category 2 status for ICAIRE at Global AI Summit](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/icaire-unesco-category-2-2024)
- 2024-01-10 — [SDAIA issues generative AI guidelines for government and the public](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/genai-guidelines-2024)
- 2023-09-14 — [PDPL takes effect; full enforcement follows in September 2024](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/pdpl-in-force-2023)
- 2023-09-14 — [SDAIA publishes AI Ethics Principles version 2.0](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/ai-ethics-principles-v2-2023)
- 2023-07-25 — [Cabinet approves International Center for AI Research and Ethics](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/icaire-cabinet-approval-2023)
- 2023-03-27 — [Royal decree amends the Personal Data Protection Law](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/pdpl-amended-2023)
- 2021-09-16 — [Saudi Arabia issues its first Personal Data Protection Law](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/pdpl-royal-decree-2021)
- 2020-10-21 — [SDAIA launches National Strategy for Data and AI at first Global AI Summit](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/nsdai-launched-gain-2020)
- 2019-08-30 — [Royal decree establishes SDAIA as national data and AI authority](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/sdaia-established-2019)
- 2016-04-25 — [Mohammed bin Salman unveils Saudi Vision 2030](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/vision-2030-launched)

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