Practitioner
An entity authorized by law to prescribe drugs.
How the laws define this
Both instruments connect the concept of a practitioner to artificial intelligence and legal oversight involving licensing. However, the frameworks fundamentally diverge on who or what holds practitioner status. Under the Healthy Technology Act of 2025, which references the FDCA's traditional view of a practitioner as a state-licensed human professional, the concept is expanded to directly include AI itself. In contrast, the Kenya Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Society Bill 2023 defines practitioners as the persons and undertakings engaged in the engineering, development, deployment, or provision of robotics and AI systems. Under the Kenya Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Society Bill 2023, these persons and undertakings fall within the regulatory regime and may be required to register, obtain licences, comply with codes of conduct, and adhere to standards and inspection regimes established by the Society, whereas the Healthy Technology Act of 2025 integrates AI itself into the practitioner role.
Synthesised from the 2 statutory definitions below. Each one is quoted in full, with its source.
Definitions (2)
Under the FDCA, a practitioner is traditionally a human professional licensed by a state; this bill expands that definition to include AI.
Practitioners are the persons and undertakings engaged in the engineering, development, deployment or provision of robotics and AI systems who are within the scope of the Bill’s regulatory regime and who may be required to register, obtain licences, comply with codes of conduct and adhere to standards and inspection regimes established by the Society.