UAE Strengthens Government Efficiency With New Cabinet AI Advisor
Emirati experts taking part in the National Experts Program’s technology track say the UAE’s newly launched Cabinet advisory system will give government leaders sharper insight when weighing policy decisions, help them stay on top of regulatory shifts, and support choices from initial analysis through to implementation.
The system, made up of 32 specialized advisers designed to analyze policies, legislation, strategies and government systems, is meant to speed up analysis, widen the evidence base ministers draw on, and keep recommendations updated, all without replacing human judgment.
Experts shared these views during the third training module of the program, alongside figures shaping the UAE’s technology strategy, including Faisal Abdulaziz Al Bannai, advisor to the UAE President for Strategic Research and Advanced Technology Affairs.
Yaser Alshehhi, who specializes in technology strategy development, said one of the system’s strengths is linking how a single decision ripples across sectors. A transport policy, he noted, can carry consequences for the economy, sustainability, infrastructure and society, and the tool helps decision-makers trace those connections and anticipate knock-on effects before they happen.
Sultan AlRaeesi, an expert in policy, regulation and diplomacy, described the initiative as a sign of the UAE pushing this kind of technology beyond routine services and operations and closer to the policymaking process itself. He said the tool can help compare regulatory approaches and gauge the likely impact of proposed decisions, while cautioning that its expanding role needs to be matched with clear rules around transparency, validation and accountability.
Mohammed Alketbi, who focuses on autonomous decision-support systems, said the next stage goes further still, moving from supporting decisions to helping carry them out and tracking whether they actually work. Such systems, he explained, can break broader objectives into concrete tasks, monitor progress and flag when adjustments are needed, narrowing the gap between what a government decides and what actually happens on the ground.
Even so, Alketbi was clear that none of this shifts responsibility away from ministers. The goal, he said, is to support the full arc of decision-making, from analysis and action to monitoring and course correction, while final judgment and accountability remain firmly in human hands.
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