The Imperative for Sharia-Aligned AI
As artificial intelligence expands its footprint across key sectors such as finance, healthcare, governance, and education, organizations in the Muslim world are increasingly seeking solutions that comply with Islamic ethical and legal principles. Islamic ethics, deeply rooted in the objectives of Sharia (Maqasid al-Sharia), demand fairness, transparency, and avoidance of harm while preserving human dignity, community well-being, and faith-based values. Carlo PEaaS offers a robust ethical governance framework tailored to align AI systems with Sharia compliance. It provides real-time enforcement of Islamic jurisprudence across data use, model logic, decision outcomes, and application contexts.
1. Maqasid al-Sharia (The Higher Objectives of Islamic Law)
The preservation of religion, life, intellect, lineage, and property is foundational to all ethical decision-making in Islamic systems. o Carlo Enforcement: Carlo deploys AI value-alignment metrics and risk assessments that evaluate whether model outputs jeopardize these protected domains. It halts deployment of systems that violate these principles until corrective action is taken.
2. Adl and Ihsan (Justice and Benevolence)
Equity, compassion, and the avoidance of exploitation are core to Islamic values. o Carlo Enforcement: Carlo audits output distributions in AI applications for discriminatory patterns. Whether in lending decisions or employment recommendations, it flags outputs that exhibit structural injustice.3. Darar (Avoidance of Harm)
Harm, whether physical, social, or psychological, must be proactively avoided. o Carlo Enforcement: Risk-sensitive applications like autonomous vehicles, biometric surveillance, and medical diagnostics are run through Carlo’s ethical safety module that calculates risk scores and requires human oversight at defined thresholds.4. Halal and Haram (Permissibility Framework)
AI must not be used to support or promote haram (prohibited) activities such as gambling, interest-based financial services (riba), alcohol, pornography, or unethical marketing. o Carlo Enforcement: Carlo includes a contextual classifier trained to identify and restrict integration with haram content APIs, datasets, or user workflows. It also enables domain whitelisting to restrict AI use to halal-aligned business processes.5. Amanah and Taklif (Trust and Accountability)
The ethical trust placed on developers, engineers, and decision-makers must be preserved. o Carlo Enforcement: Every change to the AI system—from dataset manipulation to final output—is logged with identity tracking and tamper-proof logs. This creates full accountability and governance transparency for Sharia compliance reviews.- Islamic Fintech and Neobanks: Carlo prevents riba-driven logic in savings, credit scoring, or lending applications. It enforces zakat-eligible transaction models and validates Islamic finance instruments like Musharaka, Ijara, and Takaful.
- Telemedicine and Diagnostics in GCC Hospitals: Enforces gender-sensitive workflows, ensures consent is religiously appropriate, and mandates modesty-based ethical filters for visual processing models.
- Education Systems in Islamic Nations: Carlo filters AI-driven educational content and NLP applications to ensure it is in line with Islamic moral pedagogy and free of cultural insensitivity.
- E-Commerce and Digital Marketing: Enforces halal commerce principles, restricts targeting logic on inappropriate products, and provides real-time moderation of AI-recommended content in Muslim markets.
- Sharia Compliance Dashboard: Displays compliance status for AI modules across datasets, logic, and deployment layers.
- Violation Alert Engine: Sends real-time notifications when prohibited actions or outputs are detected.
- Fatwa API Connector: Allows integration with national or institutional Sharia boards for model vetting and certification.
- First AI compliance tool with native enforcement of Islamic ethical laws
- Trusted by developers, religious institutions, and public sector stakeholders
- Increases market credibility for businesses targeting OIC and GCC countries
- Builds AI that is not only legal, but religiously and culturally accepted
- Align AI models with both secular regulations and Sharia law
- Demonstrate accountability to faith-based stakeholders
- Obtain official Algorethics Sharia-Compliant AI Certification for enhanced trust and credibility