A Summary Report: AI, National Culture, and the UAE's Transformation

This report provides a comprehensive summary of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the national culture of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It explores how the UAE has rapidly adopted AI technologies to enhance its tourism, culture, heritage, and economy. The report highlights the government's initiatives, including the establishment of an AI department and the implementation of AI in various sectors such as traffic management and public services. It discusses the strategic recommendations for the responsible and ethical use of AI, emphasizing the importance of balancing economic goals with social factors, cultural values, and the creation of high-quality jobs. The report references academic sources and provides insights into the future development plans of the UAE, including the use of AI in transportation and other innovative fields. The report also highlights the importance of maintaining cultural identity while embracing technological advancements.

Mind Map Summary
This ‘National Culture Mind-Map’ represents about the United Arab Emirates
(UAE)’s history, national culture, wars, and the revolution. UAE has seen rapid development
and revolution since the last few decades. UAE people are having hard belief in Islam and
their religion is Mohammedan. Along with their most popular sports, Camel Racing, Horse
Riding etc., they celebrate their festivals with full of enthusiasm and take part with many
dance forms. They mostly prefer to wear religious clothes and greet their knowns in a
different way. UAE has a variety of food cuisines. Tristam (2019) stated that UAE faced
many wars since many centuries, and the modern UAE established since 1971 comprised of
six emirates altogether. UAE has adopted Artificial Intelligence technologies for its rapid
revolution.
Identification of Issue
Artificial intelligence (AI) has laid the new path for an automated world at a rapid
stage and eliminating human involvement from all day to day activities. UAE is using AI
almost everywhere to increase its tourism industry, culture, heritage, and economy.
Academic Source
Makridakis (2018) stated that Artificial Intelligence is a great revolution which does
not eliminate the people’s job, but it works in collaboration with the human. It is helping in
every aspect of life. Few of the examples are transport, cars, robots, computer games, curing
fatal diseases (cancer), traffic, environment, space, water, face/voice recognition etcetera are
the areas which artificial intelligence playing a vital role and UAE government has also
implemented in every facet of human life without affecting their cultural values
(Government.ae, 2018).

Where many researchers are against the use of AI but UAE has launched a special
institute for the training of AI which will help to save the life of people by fully utilizing
Artificial Intelligence. They are now more focused to maintain their culture, traditions, and
tourism. By using AI, they are able to handle the traffic system which reduced the accidents
and congestion. Moreover, with the help of AI, they are saving a lot of amounts which they
are utilizing on more creative ideas. Using all of that they want to attract more and more
tourists to visit UAE to know about their culture and about their new innovations. It is
automatically increasing their GDP day by day. Dubai is investing a huge amount on the
Artificial Intelligence sector and in this regard, the UAE Government set up a separate
Artificial Intelligence department which is working for a future focussed development. They
have set a goal to occupy robot cops in Dubai. Moreover, they are working to launch ski-cars
and driverless cars/buses on the roads by 2030 to lead the work in the Artificial Intelligence
field (Galeon, 2017).
Strategic Recommendation
The very major strategic recommendation for Artificial Intelligence by any country
like UAE is that they must not use Artificial Intelligence only for the economic goals, but
they should focus more on the social factors too. With the help of Artificial Intelligence
resources, people will get more high quality of jobs and work will be done very fast &
accurately along with following the privacy, ethics, security, and cultural values of a nation.