J·Index / Countries / Bahrain

AI in Bahrain's news media

1 verified, source-linked AI implementation across 1 news organization, 2025.

Middle East and North Africa2025

Cases

Organizations

Active since

2025

Controversies

What AI is used for

AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters1

How far adoption has gone

1 – Access0

2 – Adoption1

3 – Proficiency0

4 – Ways of Working0

5 – Reorganizing0

Who is adopting

Bahrain Ministry of Information 1

Funding: Public broadcaster / state media (1)

Notable cases

2025Bahrain Ministry of Information

AI Creators Lab (مختبر المبدعين) — AI media content training programme: prompt writing, visual/audio content generation, infographic design, data analysis and virtual character creation for government media communicators; produced ""Sahm

AI Avatars / Synthetic Presenters2 – Adoption

Bahrain's first AI-powered virtual security news anchor",AI prompt engineering, image/videSource →

Elsewhere in Middle East and North Africa

Algeria 2 Egypt 11 Iran 4 Israel 3 Jordan 7 Kuwait 6 Lebanon 6 Malta 3 Morocco 3 Oman 4 Palestine 1

Data from J·Index, the Journalism AI Index — every case verified against a published source. See the methodological note for how cases are collected and coded. Updated 2026-07-23.