Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026, transparency, disclosure and synthetic-media labelling
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Proposed: draft date not recorded.
An AI transparency 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.
- Disclose to users and affected persons the nature, purpose and limitations of your system, the extent to which decisions or outputs are automated, and your bias-mitigation measures.
- Do not generate, deploy or distribute synthetic media using a person's image, voice or likeness without their explicit consent where it is likely to cause harm, misinformation, defamation or an invasion of privacy.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
As drafted, generating, deploying or distributing harmful synthetic media without consent would carry a fine of up to KES 5,000,000 or imprisonment of up to two years, or both (s. 35(2)(a); the Bill's own text at that clause cross-refers to itself as 'section 34', a drafting artifact, but the printed clause carrying the offences and this penalty is numbered 35); this measure is a bill and does not yet bind anyone.
Penalty structure
As drafted (s. 35(2)(a)); this measure is a bill and does not yet bind anyone. The same subsection also allows imprisonment of up to two years instead of or in addition to the fine.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 5 September 2026
- Currency
- KES
- Fixed cap
- 5,000,000
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 any artificial intelligence system would have to disclose to users and affected persons its nature, purpose and limitations, the extent to which its outputs are automated, and its bias-mitigation measures, and a provider of a high-risk system would have to submit annual compliance reports.
Generating, deploying or distributing synthetic media using a person's image, voice or likeness without their explicit consent, in a way likely to cause harm, misinformation, defamation or an invasion of privacy, would be an offence carrying a fine of up to KES 5,000,000 or imprisonment of up to two years, or both.
When LexLint raises it
generates_contentdeploys_chatbotprocesses_voicehigh_risk_decisions
Read the law
official Bill text, Kenya Gazette Supplement, Kenya Law (new.kenyalaw.org)