First published: 29-Dec-2023 15:10:18

• Global trends in using technology to address challenges
• Transparent data enables proactive risk analysis and remediation.

United Arab Emirates : Since 2017, the UAE has launched the UAE Artificial Intelligence Strategy to achieve the goals of the “Centennial 2071” and implement future development programs and projects and rely on data analysis by 100% in 2031, especially in anticipating, managing and reducing the complications of health, climate, societal and other crises, while This strategy is the first of its kind regionally and globally.

The UAE aims to rely on artificial intelligence to improve performance, accelerate achievement, and create innovative work environments in all sectors in the country, including: reducing accidents and operational costs.

The Interregional Center for Strategic Analysis in Abu Dhabi confirmed in a recent study that one of the reasons that led to the use of artificial intelligence in many fields is to anticipate and manage crises and reduce their damage, as traditional methods are no longer effective, given the enormity of the material and human losses resulting from them.

Advanced methods

The center said that the importance of searching for advanced methods and practical and rapid ways to confront crises, natural disasters and others has increased significantly over the past years, and questions have been raised about the roles that artificial intelligence can play in confronting these crises, and the extent to which it can be used to provide decision-makers with the appropriate tools and information to reduce their risks.

Role limits

Interregional explained that the uses of artificial intelligence in crises are multiple, in supporting the decision-making process based on information and applying a set of algorithms that reduce errors and increase the chance of reaching the appropriate decision with extreme accuracy.

Artificial intelligence can analyze huge amounts of information with extreme accuracy, which means that decision-makers can identify, analyze, and predict popular ideas and trends. It also contributes to anticipating some potential crises and the possibility of building proactive early warning systems, which enables the construction of a map of potential risks.

The center explained that artificial intelligence technologies have huge capabilities to collect and process data in real time, enabling work teams to address the crisis, which mitigates risks and speeds up the adoption of urgent measures.

Artificial intelligence-based simulation models can generate a large amount of data, execute a huge number of commands, and analyze them in record time, compared to traditional analyses and consultations, which speeds up the decision-maker’s making informed decisions, which increases the efficiency of responding to crises when they occur.

Challenges

The Interregional study indicated that the application of artificial intelligence systems in crisis management imposes several challenges, the most prominent of which are: dealing with the privacy and sensitivity of some information.

The inability to make decisions using the required emotion in some cases, in addition to the availability of a large amount and quality of data free from bias, which leads to defects, ambiguity and lack of accuracy in the final outputs.

Interregional said: “Using AI to address crises requires training and rehabilitation of various stakeholders and decision-making institutions, as well as providing transparent and accurate data to ensure appropriate decision-making and predict potential scenarios, which requires high-quality inputs.”

The center added that the challenge of energy consumption by artificial intelligence systems based on data centers, sensors, robots, the Internet of Things, communications, and others is one of the most important challenges, which requires resorting to the use of sustainable energy to reduce harmful environmental impacts.

The Interregional Center stressed that the appropriate structure must be provided to employ artificial intelligence in creating proactive platforms to predict crises, better understand their potential risks, plan ahead to mitigate their potential damage, and determine the best ways to respond in the shortest time.

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Interregional Strategic Analytics is a multi-tasking, general consulting firm established on January 20, 2021, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It includes a research center that monitors and analyzes current developments of a strategic nature, through academic activities, such as media observatories and analyses. Political, specialized periodicals, websites, and discussion groups.

The Foundation interacts with “public sphere” activities in the regions of the world that have an impact on the region, with the aim of presenting a balanced vision of the reality of the Middle East, and the trends of the main Arab countries, especially the Gulf, “across the regions.” It also works to support the process of policy formation and decision-making in institutions. Public and private, inside and outside the country, within the framework of the rules governing the work of free zone companies.

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