Experts have hailed the establishment of a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) Council in Abu Dhabi as a significant move towards strengthening national cybersecurity.
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC); Released on January 22nd Appointed by the government of Abu Dhabi, he will be responsible for developing policies and strategies related to research, infrastructure and investment in AI and advanced technologies in the UAE’s capital emirate.
“The establishment of AIATC reflects a strong belief in the importance of technological leadership in building the economy of the future,” said a statement from the Abu Dhabi Media Office.
“The council will work with local and global partners to develop plans and research programs to enhance Abu Dhabi’s position in the field of AI and advanced technologies,” it added.
The role of cybersecurity in AI
Shilpi Handa, IDC associate research director for IDC’s Middle East, Turkey and Africa cybersecurity practice, said she expects cybersecurity to play a pivotal role within the council.
“The Council may focus on a variety of key areas to ensure the responsible and safe deployment of AI technologies. Adversarial AI Threat, protect data privacy, correct algorithmic bias, and promote transparency. ”
Nader Henein, Vice President and Analyst at Gartner, said organizations like AIATC must maintain and promote trust in AI and ethical AI development as part of their AI intelligence trust, risk, and security management programs. He says he has a unique role.
“It is too early to tell whether there will be targeted development of cybersecurity use cases by the council,” Henein noted. “There are many use cases like this under the AI umbrella that are defensive in nature, such as analyzing access logs across all enterprise systems to identify outliers and potential attacks in real time. Or it could be a use case that is offensive in nature” for the purpose of identifying vulnerabilities. ”
Focusing on cybersecurity is ‘very important’
Henein suggested that AIATC could run a similar program. 2 Year AI Cyber Challenge It was launched by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and challenges competitors to use AI to identify and fix vulnerabilities in their software.
Gartner experts say it will be “critically important” for AIATC to focus on cybersecurity, as AI developments, generative or otherwise, will provide “a unique cybersecurity power multiplier.” states.
The news comes as Abu Dhabi continues to focus on AI innovation and development. UAE National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence Vision for 2031.
Additional UAE technology plans
Abu Dhabi Advanced Technology Research Council The emirate recently launched an AI-focused company, AI71, as it steps up efforts to become a global hub for emerging technologies.
AI71 aims to democratize access to AI and is built on the Large-Scale Language Model (LLM) developed by the Council. Institute of Technology Innovation (TTI). The company is designed to serve major economic sectors. The company will initially launch LLMs in the medical, legal, education and government sectors, but there are “many other” LLMs planned, Faisal Al Bannai, the council’s executive director, said at the presentation. mentioned in.
Last year, TTI launched its latest flagship LLM falconAbu Dhabi AI company Inception, Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Cerebras Systems launch Jacean open-source Arabic-English bilingual model.
Management consulting company Strategy& Co., Ltd. Overall economic impact of GenAI Spending in the Persian Gulf could reach $23.5 billion annually by 2030.