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The United Arab Emirates aim to use it to help write new legislation and revise and change existing laws, in the most radical effort of the Gulf state to exploit a technology in which billions have spilled.
The plan for what the state media called it “regulation run by it” goes farther than anything else that is seen elsewhere, the scholars said, while they noticed that the details were scarce. Other governments are trying to use it to become more efficient, from summarizing bills to improving public service delivery, but not actively suggest changes to current laws by suppressing government and legal data.
“This new legislative system, powered by artificial intelligence, will change the way we create laws, making the process faster and more accurate,” said Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai ruler and vice president of the United Arab Emirates, quoted by state media.
Ministers last week approved the creation of a new cabinet unit, the Office of Regulatory Intelligence, to oversee the legislative impetus of it.
Rony Medaglia, a professor at the Copenhagen Business School, said the United Arab Emirates seemed to have a “basic ambition to turn it into a kind of co-legislator”, and described the plan as “very bold”.
Abu Dhabi bet on him and last year opened a dedicated investment vehicle, MGX, which has supported a $ 30 billion fund-infrastructure among other investments. Mgx has also added an observer to it on the board.
The United Arab Emirates plan to use it to pursue how laws affect the country’s population and economy by creating a massive database of federal and local laws, along with public sector data such as court judgments and government services.
He “will regularly suggest updates to our legislation,” Sheikh Mohammad, according to state media, said. The government expects it to speed up the law by 70 percent, according to the reading of the cabinet meeting.
But the researchers noticed that he could face many challenges and traps. They range from him becoming incomprehensible to its users, up to prejudice caused by his training data and questions whether he even interprets laws in the same way as humans.
Although the models of it are impressive, “they continue to hallucinates (and) have issues of credibility and endurance issues,” warned Vincent Straub, a researcher at Oxford University. “We can’t trust them.”
The United Arab Emirates are particularly new because they include the use of it to provide for legal changes that may be needed, Straub said. They can potentially save costs – governments often pay law firms to review legislation.
“It seems they are going a step further. From the look of it, let’s say, as an assistant, a tool that can help and categorize and design, to one who can really anticipate and predict,” Straub said.
Keegan McBRIDE, a lecturer at the Oxford Internet Institute, said the UAE Autocratic Arabic had a “easier time” embracing the digitalization of the inclusive government than they have many democratic nations. “They are able to move fast. They can experiment with things.”
There are dozens of smaller ways that governments are using in legislation, McBRIDE said, but it had not seen a similar plan from other countries. “As for the ambition, (the United Arab Emirates are) right there near the top,” McBride said.
It is unclear which system it will use the government, and experts said they may have to combine more than one.
But setting up guards for him and human supervision would be essential, researchers said.
He can propose something “really, truly strange” that “makes sense for a car”, but “cannot make sense absolutely to apply it there for a human society,” said Marina De Vos, a computer scientist at Bath University.
