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UAE: Can AI create laws? Tech-driven framework to fasten legal processes, says minister
'This framework is designed to define what to regulate, when to regulate, and how to regulate, and most importantly when to de-regulate,' she said
- PUBLISHED: Wed 7 May 2025, 2:41 PM
UAE’s comprehensive regulatory intelligence framework which will use artificial intelligence (AI) will reflect real-time monitoring of global changes, detect gaps and create scenarios about the impact of the legislation, a minister said on Wednesday.
“The UAE enters the next era of legislative journey by launching the world’s first regulatory intelligent framework that leverages AI to accelerate the legislative process and produce more efficient, faster, high-quality legislations. This framework aims to provide real-time monitoring of global changes, detect legislative gaps and propose amendments, fasten drafting of the legislations, create scenarios to simulate the impact of the legislations, and real-time enforcement of the legislations,” said Maryam bint Ahmed Al Hammadi, minister of state and secretary-general of The UAE Cabinet.
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“This framework is designed to define what to regulate, when to regulate, and how to regulate, and most importantly when to de-regulate,” she said while delivering a keynote address on the second day of the Capital Market Summit in Dubai on Wednesday.
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In April, the UAE Cabinet announced that a new office for regulatory legislative intelligence would be established to develop a comprehensive map that encompasses all federal and local legislation in the country.
The new legislative system will be powered by AI and will change how the UAE creates legislation.
The minister noted that the UAE has implemented “the biggest legislative reform, where we have updated more than 85 per cent of the UAE law in the last five years.”
“As regulators and policymakers in the UAE, we realise that for us to be relevant and to remain relevant, in a world that operates in a millisecond, we need a regulatory philosophy that is inclusive. It should have the agility, sophistication and flexibility to keep up on the rapid transformations and, most importantly, facilitate sustainable growth and progress,” she said during the opening speech of the Summit.
Maryam Al Hammadi pointed out that UAE is keen to work with market players to build a competitive ecosystem that delivers a sustainable benefit to all stakeholders.
“Over the past 20 years, our markets witnessed massive transformations. It shouldn't take us another 20 years to double that, but much less than that,” she added.
