The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced that the Financial Times (FT) will fully introduce artificial intelligence (AI) legislative systems, reported on the 20th (local time). The United Arab Emirates is the world’s first country to introduce AI into the legal proposal phase.
The UAE plans to first integrate all the laws to establish a legal system for AI and link it to judgment, administrative procedures and public services.
In addition to establishing such an integrated AI legal system, it is actively used to amend the law. The UAE will build a vast database covering federal and local laws, court decisions and public sector data, allowing AI to track the impact of the law on people and the economy. It also plans to link the system with some of the world’s leading research institutes to adjust the law to suit the unique circumstances of the UAE while following international legislative practices.
On the 14th, the UAE established its “Regulatory Intelligence Agency,” a new division that oversees the use of AI in the legislative field.
UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktum said on X (X, formerly Twitter) that “AI systems analyze huge amounts of data to track the daily impact of the law on people and the economy, and regularly propose amendments to the law.”
Recently, attempts have been made worldwide to increase the efficiency of management procedures and public services using AI summary services. France utilizes some of the AI summary functions at parliamentary and government legislative meetings, and the autonomous state of Catalonia in Spain uses ChatGpt to run a website that summarises legal documents to its citizens.
However, it is a very rare case for AI to actively propose amendments to bills. The UAE expects this will speed up the law by 70%. Furthermore, government management costs reductions are also expected in the long term by allowing AI to predict the possibility of future legal amendments during the legal review process.
However, experts are concerned that AI reliability is not yet complete and will be introduced not only in auxiliary tasks such as bill summary, but also in key legislative tasks such as drafting and forecasting legal effects. This is because there are hallucinations that answer false information and database risk of bias as if AI is true.
Analysts say the UAE, which has an authoritarian political system, is adopting AI technology more boldly than other democracies. The UAE is in a good position to carry out a variety of experiments, says Keegan McBride, lecturer at the Oxford Internet Research Institute. “Other countries are also trying to use AI in law, big and small, but have never seen an ambitious plan like the UAE.”
On the other hand, it is not yet known which models will be used to build the legal system of AI.
