An article by Abdullah Al Jaafari, CEO and Founder of Resquad AI
In May, Dubai did something few governments do: it set a deadline. Within two years, the Crown Prince said, the emirate's private sector should embrace agentic AI, software that can plan, execute and act with limited human intervention.
Dubai Chambers has since established an executive committee, along with training programmes, incubators and funding initiatives, to accelerate adoption. By any measure, it is one of the region's most ambitious technology transformation programmes.
Most commentary has treated the initiative as a technology story. It is equally, if not more, a talent story.
An autonomous AI agent is not a product that can simply be purchased and switched on. It must be designed, integrated into existing systems and governed carefully once it begins making decisions that were previously reserved for people.
