ICAIRE Framework Paper · ICAIRE-EAI-2026-001
From Awareness to Responsible Application
A Community AI Readiness Framework Linking Assessment to Needs-Based Capacity Building
This paper sets out the proposed framework and its intended operationalisation ahead of implementation.
Executive summary
This paper proposes an AI readiness framework that assesses residents of governorates and local communities and links the results directly to needs-based learning, training and access interventions. Individuals are assessed across three progressive stages: Awareness & Exposure, Understand, and Apply, with responsible AI treated as a cross-cutting layer present at every stage rather than a terminal level, and with contextual enablers and barriers reported separately from the readiness stages.
Keywords
- AI readiness
- AI literacy
- responsible AI
- AI ethics
- needs-based training
- capacity building
- sub-national assessment
Publication record
- Series
- ICAIRE Ethical AI Series
- Record number
- ICAIRE-EAI-2026-001
- Published
- October 2026
- Type
- ICAIRE Framework Paper
- Persistent link
- https://doi.org/10.68480/FPKD6392
- Review status
- Reviewed by the ICAIRE Scientific Committee
- Status
- Author-attributed, ICAIRE-hosted
- Pages
- 14
- Language
- English
Citation & identifiers
Persistent identifier
https://doi.org/10.68480/FPKD6392Alshammari, R. K., & Alanazi, A. G. (2026). From awareness to responsible application: A community AI readiness framework linking assessment to needs-based capacity building (ICAIRE Framework Paper). International Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Ethics. https://doi.org/10.68480/FPKD6392
