{"id":16617,"date":"2026-04-25T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/16617\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:22:11","slug":"the-uae-wants-half-its-government-run-by-autonomous-ai-agents-within-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/16617\/","title":{"rendered":"The UAE wants half its government run by autonomous AI agents within two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates is rolling out what may be the world&#8217;s most ambitious government AI overhaul. Within two years, the country wants 50 percent of all government sectors, services, and processes to <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/frontier-radar-1-from-chatbots-to-problem-solvers-the-state-of-ai-agents-in-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">run on &#8220;agentic AI,&#8221;<\/a> systems that analyze, decide, and <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/openai-unveils-gpt-5-5-claims-a-new-class-of-intelligence-at-double-the-api-price\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly act on their own<\/a>. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HHShkMohd\/status\/2047277766769545352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced the plan on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE says this would make it the first government in the world to lean on autonomous AI systems at this scale. The idea is to turn AI into an &#8220;executive partner&#8221; that improves services, speeds up decisions, and boosts efficiency. Every federal employee will be trained to work with AI. The goal, according to Sheikh Mohammed, is a government that is &#8221; faster, more responsive, and more impactful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AI systems that make decisions on their own are still prone to errors, can amplify biases baked into their training data, and face little oversight in a country without democratic checks and with limited press freedom. The risks of government AI use are showing up elsewhere too, including in the US, where <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/inside-the-anthropic-pentagon-breakdown-mass-surveillance-autonomous-weapons-and-a-rival-deal-waiting-in-the-wings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude maker Anthropic has raised concerns about potential mass surveillance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Arab Emirates is rolling out what may be the world&#8217;s most ambitious government AI overhaul. Within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,7537,11124],"class_list":{"0":"post-16617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-ai-agents","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","10":"tag-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}