UAE intends to use the II for writing laws in the world first

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The United Arab Emirates are aimed at using the II to help write new legislation and revise and change existing laws, in the most radical attempts of the Gulf state to use the technology into which it poured billions.

The plan for the fact that the state-owned media called “AI Rules” goes further than everything visible elsewhere, said AI researchers, noting that the details were scanty. Other governments are trying to use the II to become more effective: from the generalization of bills to improve public services, but not actively propose changes in the current laws through state and legitimate data crunching.

“This new legislative system, which works on artificial intelligence, will change how we create laws, making the process faster and more precisely,” said Sheikh Mohammad Ben Rashid al Mactum, the head of Dubai and the UAE vice president, cited by state media.

Last week, ministers approved the creation of a new unit of the Cabinet of Ministers when controlled by the AI ​​Push legislature.

Ronnie Medalia, Professor of Copenhagen Business School, said the UAE turned out to be “the main ambition, mostly turning into some co-authors” and called the plan “very bold.”

Abu -Dabobi largely argued on AI, and last year opened a special investment vehicle MGX, which supported A $ 30 billion. BlackRock AI-Infrastructure Fund Among other investments. MGX also added AI observer to her own board.

The UAE plans to use II to track how laws affect the country’s population and economy by setting up a large -scale federal and local law database, as well as public sector data, such as judicial and public services.

AI “regularly offers updates our legislation,” said Sheikh Mohammad, state media reports. The government expects that the II will speed up the law by 70 percent, according to reading the cabinet.

But the researchers noted that this could face many problems and submarines. Those vary from the II, which become impossible for their users, to the prejudice caused by its educational data and questions, or can II even interpret the laws in the same way as humans.

Although the AI ​​models are impressive, “they continue to hallucinate (and) problems with reliability and reliability,” Vincent Strab, a researcher at the University of Oxford, warned. “We can’t trust them.”

The UAE plans are particularly new because they include the use of II to foresee legal changes that may be required, the Strab said. They can potentially save on costs – governments often pay legal firms to consider legislation.

“They seem to be a step further. From viewing AI as, say as an assistant, a tool that can help and classify and design, to the one who can really predict and anticipate,” the Strab said.

Gigan Macbride, teacher of the Internet Institute of Oxford, said the autocratic UAE had “easier”, which covers a wide state digitis than in many democratic countries. “They can move quickly. They can experiment with things.”

MacBraid noted dozens of smaller ways that governments use the II in the legislation, but he did not see a similar plan from other countries. “In terms of ambitions (UAE is) right next to the pinnacle,” MacBraid said.

It is unclear which AI system will use the government, and experts said that it may be necessary to combine more than one.

But the installation of the fence for II and human supervision would be decisive, the researchers said.

AI can offer something “really, really strange” that “makes sense of the car”, but “may not make sense at all realizing it in human society,” said Marina de Vos, a computer -scientist at the University of Bat.