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The United Arab Emirates aim to use artificial intelligence to write new regulations and review and change existing regulations, in the most radical attempt to use technology in which it spilled billions.

AI researchers said that the plan, which the state media called “AI regulation”, goes further than anything visible elsewhere, noticing that the details were scanty. Other governments are trying to use artificial intelligence to become more efficient, from summary of bills to improving the provision of public services, but not to actively suggest changes in current regulations by crunching government and legal data.

“This new legislative system, powered by artificial intelligence, will change the way we create laws, thanks to which the process is faster and more precise,” said Szejk Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and vice president of Zea, quoted by state media.

Last week, the ministers approved the creation of a new office unit, regulatory intelligence office for supervising Push AI legislative.

Rony Medaglia, a professor at Copenhagen Business School, said that the United Arab Emirates seemed to have “basic ambitions to basically transform artificial intelligence into some coexisting” and described the plan as “very brave”.

Abu Dhabi strongly focused on artificial intelligence, and in last year he opened a dedicated investment vehicle, MGX, which supported USD 30 billion Blackrock AI-Infrastructure Fund including investments. MGX also added AI observer to his own board.

ZAA plans to use artificial intelligence to track how regulations affect the population and economy of the country, creating a huge database of federal and local regulations, together with the public sector data, such as court judgments and government services.

According to State Media AI, “regularly suggests updates to our regulations,” said Szejk Mohammad. The government expects that artificial intelligence will speed up legal revenues by 70 percent, according to the reading of the office meeting.

But scientists noticed that this could face many challenges and traps. They take place from AI, which become insufficient for users, to prejudices caused by training data and questions about whether AI interprets even rights in the same way as people.

Although AI models are impressive: “They still hallucinate [and] They have problems with reliability and solidity problems, “warned Vincent Straub, a researcher at Oxford University.” We can’t trust them. “

Straub said that ZEA plans are particularly new because they include the use of artificial intelligence to predict legal changes that may be needed. They can also potentially save on costs – governments often pay law firms for a review of regulations.

“It looks like they are going a step further … from watching artificial intelligence, say, like an assistant, a tool that can help, categorize and sketch, to one that can really predict and predict,” said Straub.

Keegan McBride, a lecturer at Oxford Internet Institute, said that autocratic ZEA had “easier time”, including wide government digitization than many democratic nations. “They are able to move quickly. They can experiment with things.”

McBride said that there are dozens of smaller ways in which the governments use in legislation, but he has not seen a similar plan from other countries. “In terms of ambition, [the UAE are] Just behind the peak, “McBride said.

It is not clear from which AI the government will use, and experts said that it may be necessary to connect more than one.

Scientists, however, say that the handrail setting for artificial intelligence and human supervision.

Ai can propose something “really, really strange”, which “makes sense to the machine”, but “may not make sense to really implement it in human society,” said Marina de Vos, computer science at Bath University.