Media: UAE to use AI to develop new legislation
The United Arab Emirates intends to be the first in the world to use artificial intelligence to develop new legislation, as well as to review and amend the existing laws, TASS reports
According to The Financial Times publication, such plans are ‘a radical attempt to use the technology in which the UAE have invested billions of Dollars’. “The new legislative system based on artificial intelligence will change the way we create laws, making this process faster and more accurate,” Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said.
The UAE government believes that AI – which will ‘regularly offer updates for legislation’ – will speed up lawmaking by 70 percent. With the help of technology, the UAE plans ‘to track how laws affect the country's population and economy’ by creating a huge database of federal and local laws, court decisions and public services.
Professor MSO at Copenhagen Business School Rony Medaglia called the plan very bold, suggesting that the UAE apparently has ‘a hidden goal to turn AI into a kind of co-legislator’.
The researchers point out that there may be many problems and pitfalls along the way. For example, AI may become obscure to users, and there will also be questions about whether technology interprets laws in the same way as humans.
"Although AI models are impressive, they continue to fail and have problems with reliability and stability," Vincent Straub, a researcher at Oxford University, said. He called the UAE plans particularly innovative, as they include the use of a neural network to predict changes in legislation in accordance with urgent needs. The authorities could also potentially save on costs since governments often pay law firms to review legislation. “Apparently, they are taking a step forward – from looking at AI as a kind of an assistant or a tool that will help classify and create projects to what it can really predict and anticipate,” Mr. Straub concluded.
