AI regulation in Morocco (2026)

Morocco's national digital and AI roadmap, launched in September 2024 by the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, positions AI as a transversal lever for economic growth and public-sector modernisation, targeting 130,000 new digital-sector jobs and broader sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure by 2030.

Proposed in late 2025, the Digital X.0 bill is Morocco's first attempt at a comprehensive digital/AI legal framework, covering AI governance ethics, data governance, digital identity, interoperability, and cybersecurity. As of early 2026 it remains with the General Secretariat of the Government and has not been enacted.

Morocco's data protection authority, the Commission Nationale de contrôle de la protection des Données à caractère Personnel (CNDP), launched a formal deliberation on AI processing of personal data, requiring transparency, fairness, integrity, and citizen redress mechanisms under existing Law 09-08.

In September 2025, Morocco's Ministry of Digital Transition signed an agreement with the CNDP to develop a nationally sovereign AI platform built on large language models (LLMs) adapted to Morocco's linguistic, cultural, and legal context.

Morocco is establishing Al-Jazari Institutes — a national network of AI excellence centres bridging academia, industry, and regional economic actors — and plans to formally launch a National Agency for AI Governance, anticipated in late 2026, which will register and audit high-risk AI systems in the public sector.

Morocco is among the first signatories of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (adopted November 2021) and participated in the UNESCO Readiness Assessment Methodology exercise, signalling an early commitment to ethical and responsible AI aligned with international norms.