UAE’s AI Minister Omar Al Olama emphasised the indispensability of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on society.
“If anyone, whether it's in the UAE or another country says we're going to stop or not allow you to use these tools, how will it impact your quality of life? It's going to have a detrimental impact on your quality of life. This is the fact of the matter. That's why countries like India, for example, went down the non-conventional path of creating its own platforms, which I think is very smart and really the way that many countries of that size need to go. In that sense, AI is driving the economy. AI is impacting society. And AI is today the technology that is enabling people to go into the 21st century in the right way. Governing it the right way, regulating it the right way and developing certain forms of the right way is really the only way to go."
On AI regulation, Olama expressed his scepticism saying, “Calls for regulation of AI are non-starters and I've been saying this for a few years and the reason why is it's as if I told someone I'm going to regulate a field of computer science or I'm going to regulate electricity. You don't regulate electricity, you regulate where electricity is used and what are the outcomes. And AI is a field of computer science. It is very difficult for you to have one set of regulations that cut across all its use cases. The second thing is the impact of AI differs on geography. So, I'm sure the Indian stakeholders in India that are looking at the impact of AI in India will see much different challenges to India than I'm seeing in the UAE because of demographic differences, because of different job classes and types of jobs and maturity of the technology.”
IGF Forum also witnessed interventions from Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Gujarat Industries Minister Harsh Sanghavi, and Author and Monk Gaur Gopal Das among others.
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Key speakers include:
Sima Ved- Founder & Chairwoman, Apparel Group
Sachin Dev Duggal - Co-founder, Builder AI
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