AI Policy Radar

UAE AI Strategy

The purest state-capitalist AI model — massive sovereign compute investments (G42, Stargate UAE) with governance through institutions rather than statute. Its AI-drafted-legislation experiment is a world-first in regulatory automation.

What it is

The UAE governs AI as a national champion project: the 2031 strategy, a 12-principle AI Charter (2024), the world's first AI ministry, and a 2025 initiative to use AI in drafting and updating legislation itself via a Regulatory Intelligence Office.

Charter adopted 2024; AI-assisted legislative drafting announced 2025.

Who is affected

Key obligations

No binding horizontal duties; charter principles guide government AI use

Recent signals

14 October 2026
UAE unveils an 'AI Control Tower' to monitor government AI agents
A new oversight layer will track accountability for agentic AI deployed across federal services. It follows the June 2026 AI and Data Authority consolidation. Its legal mandate is not yet confirmed in an official release (news-sourced).
10 September 2026
UAE reviews second phase of its government-wide agentic AI project
The Ministerial Council for AI and Development reviewed the strategy for running half of federal services and operations on agentic AI, following the May Cabinet governance framework.
14 June 2026
UAE creates a single federal AI and Data Authority
Three bodies merged into one authority reporting to the Cabinet, chaired by AI minister Omar Al Olama.