AI in Brunei

Brunei

Verified September 29, 2026

Strategy

Digital Brunei 2030: The Digital Brunei Transformation Plan (includes the cross-cutting Data and Artificial Intelligence Strategy)June 3, 2026

AI law

None

Guidance

Guide on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics for Brunei Darussalam (First Edition 2025; Second Edition 2026), plus the companion Guide on Responsible Use of Generative AI (Series 1, 2026)2025

Lead agency

Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI), a statutory body under the Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications (MTIC); AITI issues AI governance guidance and administers the PDPO, while MTIC and the Digital Brunei Council own the Digital Brunei 2030 plan and its Data and AI Strategy

Data law

Personal Data Protection Order, 2025 (Perintah Perlindungan Data Peribadi, 2025), Government Gazette No. S 1/2025, made under Article 83(3) of the ConstitutionEnacted, January 1, 2026

Sector rules

• GenAI Guidance for Education, Handbook Edition2025A handbook for teachers and students on safe and ethical generative AI use covering digital safety, academic integrity, responsible use and personal data protection, aligned with AITI's AI guide, the PDPO and Malay Islamic Monarchy values, as described by the Minister of Education at the Legislative Council on 2026-03-26 (the handbook itself was not found on moe.gov.bn).

Latest

The Digital Brunei Council launched Digital Brunei 2030, the successor to the Digital Economy Masterplan 2025, which for the first time gives Brunei a published national Data and AI Strategy with flagship commitments to an AI-capable data centre, a sovereign cloud with AI compute and a Brunei-context national LLM; earlier in the year AITI released the second edition of its AI governance guide and a generative AI guide (2026-04), the PDPO's substantive provisions took effect (2026-01-01), and BDCB widened its fintech sandbox (2026-05-21).June 3, 2026

Posture: Brunei is a guidance-first jurisdiction. Nothing AI-specific has legal force; the only binding instrument that bears on AI is the PDPO 2025, which applies to private organisations only. Name variants: AITI is spelled both 'Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry' and 'Authority for Infocommunications Technology Industry' in official documents; the PDPO is 'Personal Data Protection Order, 2025' (with the comma) in the gazette and often 'PDPO 2025' elsewhere. Strategy status: until 2026-06 Brunei had no national AI strategy (ISEAS counted it among the four ASEAN members without one as of early 2026); the Data and AI Strategy is a chapter of Digital Brunei 2030, not a standalone document, and the booklet PDF is image-based with little extractable text, so details were taken from the digitalbrunei.bn strategy page. The launch date is reported as 2026-06-03 (The Star) with Borneo Bulletin coverage on 2026-06-04; the booklet PDF metadata is dated 2026-06-02. Separately, MTIC launched its own Strategic Plan 2026-2030 on 2026-01-30. PDPO commencement: section 1(1) of the Order leaves commencement to a ministerial notification; the 2026-01-01 date rests on DLA Piper (updated 2026-03-18) and Rajah & Tann, both citing a one-year transition, and the AGC document page (posted 2026-08-27) lists no subsidiary legislation, so the commencement notification's gazette number is unconfirmed. AI guide editions: the first edition PDF is dated 2025-04 (news release 2025-04-11); the second edition is hosted only as a FlowPaper flipbook with no visible date on the cover page, and press reports (The Star, 2026-05-01) date its publication to around 2026-04/05 after a 2025-11 consultation paper. The AITI guide references 'Second Edition' of Singapore's Model AI Governance Framework in its text, which should not be confused with AITI's own second edition. AMRO's labour-exposure note is analysis, not policy. No em dashes were used.