‘Dubai AI’: An AI-Powered Digital City Concierge

• The digital platform will present intensive city-wide data and companies, spanning healthcare, leisure, enterprise, and schooling for all residents and guests.
• Dubai AI will assist digitize life for residents and guests in Dubai.

His Excellency Matar Al Hemeiri, Chief Executive, Digital Dubai Government Establishment, Digital Dubai, introduced the launch of ‘Dubai AI’, a generative AI-powered digital metropolis concierge, throughout the Dubai Assembly for Generative AI, which is being held underneath the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of the Executive Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation.

During a keynote titled ‘Digital Dubai: A City-Level AI Product’, HE Al Hemeiri revealed that the city-wide digital platform will supply complete data and companies, masking well being, leisure, enterprise, and schooling, to all residents and guests throughout town. 

In a panel titled ‘GenAI and Existential Questions for Government’, Her Excellency Dr. Moza Suwaidan, Chief Executive, Digital Applications and Platforms Sector, Digital Dubai Government Establishment, Digital Dubai, defined that “the way we offer services will drastically change, and we have started today with Dubai AI. Our role in the future will be more focused on enablement and regulations as opposed to operating different services and systems.”

HE Dr. Suwaidan additionally addressed considerations concerning privateness and safety within the realm of AI, emphasizing that these considerations have persevered because the early days of AI, typically deterring sure teams from having fun with its advantages. She confused the joint accountability of expertise producers, governments, and shoppers to protect in opposition to AI shortcomings.

During the panel, Christian Gleich, Global Head of Emerging Tech Governance Strategy on the European Blockchain Association, underscored the necessity to tackle rising applied sciences collectively, stating that “The UAE is an example of how emerging tech topics, such as tokenization, blockchain, and AI, are effectively addressed with expertise. Currently, we are working on regulating these topics separately, but it’s essential to recognize that they are converging and evolving together.”

In one other keynote titled ‘Synthetic Data: The Next Wave of Privacy Solutions’, His Excellency Younus Al Nasser, Chief Executive, Dubai Data and Statistics Establishment, Digital Dubai, advocated for artificial knowledge as an answer to handle important considerations surrounding the privateness and safety of AI purposes. Synthetic knowledge represents AI-generated knowledge that mimics the construction and content material of actual knowledge with out revealing particular person identities, thus providing a stability between privateness and knowledge high quality.

He defined how artificial knowledge is taking part in a key position in fueling digital transformation, aligning with Dubai’s formidable Economic Agenda D33, which goals to contribute AED 100 billion yearly to town’s financial system by digital transformation tasks.

“In an ever-evolving landscape of innovative technologies, we must find innovative ways to fuel the data requirements for transformative technologies like generative AI. Synthetic data plays a pivotal role in fulfilling these demands,” HE Al Nasser concluded.  

Digital Dubai, a strategic accomplice of the Dubai Assembly for Generative AI, is scheduled to host a non-public session tomorrow on the sidelines of the occasion, titled ‘Responsible Generative AI: Towards Systematic Ethical AI Assessment in Dubai’. The dialogue unveils thought-provoking key findings on the present panorama of generative AI makes use of throughout Dubai’s authorities, in addition to present an introductory masterclass on the certification of AI ethics.