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Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026, high-risk system obligations

Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026 (Senate Bills No. 4), ss. 26-27 (obligations for high-risk artificial intelligence systems; register)

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Proposed: draft date not recorded.

An AI risk obligations rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 5 September 2026.

What it requires

  • This measure is a bill and binds nobody yet; what follows is what it would require if it is enacted in this form.
  • Conduct a risk assessment and a human-rights impact assessment before deploying a high-risk system, and maintain human oversight of it.
  • Keep records of data inputs, training datasets, outputs and performance metrics for at least five years.
  • Obtain explicit consent from a person, or their legal representative, before generating or manipulating their image, voice or likeness, and label the output as AI-generated.

Who checks it

Audit expectation

continuous

Who audits it

Self, Regulator

Where the report goes

Kept

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

This measure is a Senate bill and binds nobody yet. As drafted, a provider or deployer of a high-risk system would have to conduct a risk assessment and a human-rights impact assessment before deployment, ensure transparency, traceability and explainability of the system's decision-making, keep records of training data and performance for at least five years, and obtain explicit consent before generating or manipulating a person's image, voice or likeness.

The Artificial Intelligence Commissioner would maintain a public register of high-risk systems, including those used by county governments.

When LexLint raises it

  • high_risk_decisions
  • processes_voice
  • generates_content

Read the law

official Bill text, Kenya Gazette Supplement, Kenya Law (new.kenyalaw.org)

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