Kenya's courts decline a blanket AI moratorium, but order the government to report back

Petitioners challenged the absence of any comprehensive AI policy, legislation or regulatory framework in Kenya, seeking conservatory orders restraining the deployment of "high-risk artificial intelligence systems" generally and drawing on the reasoning of the Huduma Namba litigation. The Court held the petition raised a genuine case for AI regulation, but that a vague, unparticularised moratorium on unnamed systems was unworkable and could not be granted as framed. Rather than dismiss the petition, the Court granted leave to amend it to identify specific AI systems, joined the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights as a necessary party, and adopted a structural interdict — ordering the respondents to file periodic situation reports on progress toward AI regulation, with a priority hearing date fixed.