While most countries still debate the limits of the use of artificial intelligence by official channels, the United Arab Emirates They are preparing for a gigantic step: Xeique Mohammed Bin Rashid al Maktoum itself, which accumulates the positions of vice president and prime minister, announced a few days ago that technology will be used to connect, analyze and eventually suggest changes in the country’s laws.
The prince said at the last cabinet meeting that a regulatory intelligence office was created to gather all the federal and local laws of the UAE, connecting them through artificial intelligence with court decisions, executive procedures and public services.
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“The new system will allow us to track the daily impact of laws on people and the economy, using data on a large scale, and will regularly suggest updates in our legislation,” said Al Maktoum, according to state media report, reproduced on social network X. “The system will be linked to the main global research centers to follow the best international legislative policies and practices, adapting them to the unique circumstances of the United Arabs,” said the xeique.
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The economic power of the region has stood out in this technological field. Although the United Arab Emirates were positioned only in 20th position in the Global 2024 Tortoise Media index, the country is much better ranked in infrastructure subsidies (16th place), research (12th), development (9th) and use intensity (13th). The general list, led by the United States, includes 83 countries – Brazil is in the number 30 position of the ranking.
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By official calculations, AI will help accelerate the legislative process by up to 70%, reducing the time and effort needed for research, writing, evaluation and promulgation of laws. The sherry described the decision as a “paradigm shift.
The initiative is part of a broader effort in the United Arab Emirates to apply AI in government services, economic planning and infrastructure.
The Judiciary of the United Arab Emirates and the specialized courts have already invested heavily in IA. The Ministry of Justice already uses systems such as the Virtual Legal Advisor and Bots of Family Law.
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In addition, last year, the ministry announced “Aisha”, its first virtual employee operating with Generative AI, capable of talking to judicial users and providing them with the status and procedures of their processes, says Middle East Ai News.
These regulatory innovations, according to the report, not only increase efficiency and transparency, but also reinforce the ambition of the United Arab Emirates to establish new AI standards and legal technology integration in public services.
Reactions between researchers
The theme was treated by Financial Times this week. Ron Medaglia, a professor at Copenhagen Business School, told the finance newspaper that the country seems to have an “underlying ambition to basically turn AI into some kind of co-legislator” and described the plan as “very bold.”
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Vincent Straub, a researcher at Oxford University, in turn, warned that the project could face many challenges and traps. For him, this ranges from the AI becoming unscruable to its users, to prejudice caused by their training data and questions about whether technology interprets laws just as humans. He said that although Ia models were impressive, “they continue to hallucinate [e] have problems of reliability and robustness. ”“ We can’t trust them. ”
Also according to FT, Keegan McBride, professor at Oxford Internet Institute, commented that the United Arab Emirates were “easier” to embrace the comprehensive digitization of the government than many democratic nations. “They are able to move fast. They can try things.”
There were dozens of smaller ways in which governments were using AI in the legislation, McBride said, but he said he did not see a similar plan from other countries. “In terms of ambition, [os Emirados Árabes] They are very close to the top, ”he said.
