Sami Mahroum sees the region’s strategy as a way for governments to reclaim capabilities long outsourced to advisers.
Gulf governments are adopting AI-driven systems to reverse decades of consultant-dependency and rebuild internal governance capacity. The shift signals a new market for AI governance platforms targeting state decision-making, reshaping how public institutions evaluate technology partnerships.
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Innovation
Jul 27, 2026
Sami Mahroum
Governments around the world have spent decades outsourcing their ability to think to expensive consultants, gradually ceding the knowledge and judgment needed to govern effectively. AI may now offer a way to reverse that trend, and Gulf countries are providing an early glimpse of what that may look like.
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