UAE - The Coming AI Powerhouse
The United Arab Emirates is on the path to becoming a global leader in the field of artificial intelligence, aiming to court outside investors while also increasing internal AI use. In April, Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum launched the Dubai Universal Blueprint for Artificial Intelligence, a plan meant to increase business productivity by 50% and grow the economy by $27 billion through the use of AI. [Recently,] the Dubai Center for Artificial Intelligence opened with the mission of helping government departments successfully use AI.
Companies within and outside the UAE are investing heavily in AI due to its transformative potential across various business sectors.
Isabella Williamson, founder of the Dubai-based AI consulting group Tyde.AI, told The Media Line that she noticed a high demand for guidance on AI usage from businesses in the UAE. Her firm, which she founded in April, has worked with the Dubai-based marketing agencies Active DMC and Edelman and for Mubadala, one of the UAE’s state-owned investment companies.
“The real need is for affordable AI consultancy that helps businesses future-proof their people, technology, and operations against generative AI advancements,” Williamson said.
-themedialine.org, 5 August 2024
Arno's Commentary
The super-rich nation United Arab Emirates recently established diplomatic relations with Israel, with embassies in Abu Dhabi for Israel and in Tel Aviv for the UAE. For the oil-rich nation, high-tech—in this case, artificial intelligence (AI)—is essential for the future.
AI is not subject to certain highly-sophisticated institutions of learning or technical universities; it is actually open-ended—meaning no one knows where it will lead.
In his book titled 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, scientist John C. Lennox asks three pivotal questions: “The presence of artificial intelligence in daily living has become ubiquitous. How many times a day do you ask a digital assistant for help? But is all AI innocuous? Do we ever consider how the increased incorporation of AI (both narrow and general) into our lives will affect our individual and corporate privacy, the security of our jobs, our political and personal freedoms, and the future of our species as a whole?”
In the preface of his book, he writes: [Regarding] artificial general intelligence (AGI) … some think [it] will surpass human intelligence within a relatively short time, certainly by 2084 or even earlier, according to some speculations. Some imagine that AGI, if it ever gets there, will function as a god, while others as a totalitarian despot.”
No state, nation, government, or institution of higher learning can avoid or ignore what is ahead in the new AI world.
What we do know is that mankind will worship the work of his hands. Of Antichrist, we read: “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed” (Revelation 13:13-15).
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
