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The United Arab Emirates aims to use artificial intelligence to help write new legislation and review and amend current laws, in the most extreme attempts in the Gulf state to harness the technology in which it has caved billions of dollars.

AI’s intelligence researchers said that the plan for government media “AI” go beyond anything else seen elsewhere, noting that the details were minimal. Other governments are trying to use artificial intelligence to become more efficient, than summarizing bills to improving the provision of public services, but not to suggest changes in current laws by breaking government and legal data.

“This new legislative system, supported by artificial intelligence, will change how to create laws, which makes the process faster and more accurate.”

Last week, the ministers approved the establishment of a new unit of the Council of Ministers, the Organizing Intelligence Office, to supervise the advancement of legislative artificial intelligence.

Ronnie Medaglia, a professor at Copenhagen Business College, said that the United Arab Emirates seems to have “a basic ambition to turn artificial intelligence into a kind of participants”, and described the plan as “very bold.”

Abu Dhabi has wagered hard on artificial intelligence and last year opened a dedicated investment car, MGX, which supported a 30 billion dollars from the black artificial structure fund Among other investments. MGX also added Amnesty International to his own panel.

The United Arab Emirates plans to use artificial intelligence to track how laws affect the country and the economy by creating a huge database of federal and local laws, as well as public sector data such as court rulings and government services.

Sheikh Muhammad said, according to the government media, that artificial intelligence “will regularly propose updates to our legislation.” The government expects to accelerate artificial intelligence in the laws by 70 percent, according to the readings of the Council of Ministers.

But researchers have indicated that he may face many challenges and risks. Those ranging from artificial intelligence to its users range to the biases caused by training data and questions about whether artificial intelligence explains the laws in the same way that humans do.

Although artificial intelligence models are impressive, they continue to hallucinations [and] Vincent Straup, a researcher at Oxford University, warned.

Straup said that the UAE plans are especially new because they include the use of artificial intelligence to expect legal changes that may be required. They can also save costs – governments often pay law firms to review legislation.

“They seem to walk a step forward … from artificial intelligence show, let’s say, like an assistant, a tool that can help, classify and classify, to those that could really predict and really expect,” said Straub.

Kejan McBraide, lecturer at the Oxford Institute of the Internet, said that the authoritarian UAE has a “easier time” that adopts more comprehensive governmental digitization than many democratic countries. “They are able to move quickly. They can experience with things.”

McBraide said there are dozens of smaller ways that governments use in legislation, but he did not see a similar plan from other countries. In terms of ambition, [the UAE are] “There is near the summit,” said McBridide.

It is unclear, that is, the artificial intelligence system that the government will use, and experts said it may need to combine more than one.

The researchers said that the position of handrails for males of artificial intelligence and human supervision would be very important.

Marina de Vos, a computer scientist Bath, said that artificial intelligence can suggest something “really strange” really logical for a machine, “but” may have no meaning at all to really implement it in a human society. ”