UAE Unveils AI-Powered Regulatory Ecosystem for Agile Governance at Davos
January 22, 2026
AI serves as an assistant to legislators rather than a replacement, preserving final authority with humans and ensuring outputs comply with the legal system.
The whitepaper also highlights the SGiL framework, which assigns AI as an assistant while preserving human final authority.
Regulators should balance innovation and risk, avoiding overregulation that could stifle progress, a view echoed by experts warning against excessive rules.
The vision centers on an agile, data-driven model guided by national priorities, with the ecosystem evolving under leadership to stay ahead of change.
The initiative emphasizes future-ready governance, with regulations evolving alongside rapid tech and business change to improve quality of life and competitiveness, described as a living system powered by people.
Key innovations include the Regulatory Intelligence Glossary and the Unified Regulatory Digital Twin, a real-time model that monitors changes, analyzes data, suggests amendments, simulates impacts, and connects to enforcement and judicial mechanisms.
PwC leaders showcased intelligence-led regulation and GenAI capabilities, emphasizing an integrated regulatory ecosystem linking laws, outcomes, and public services.
The United Arab Emirates unveiled a first-of-its-kind whitepaper at Davos outlining a shift from static rules to a living, AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Ecosystem designed for agile governance and regulation.
Developed by the UAE Cabinet General Secretariat with Presight (a G42 company) and PwC, the paper describes a proactive, data-driven framework that keeps regulations aligned with rapid tech and societal changes while advancing public welfare and global competitiveness.
The Sovereign Governance-in-the-Loop framework ensures human oversight at critical stages, keeping humans as decision-makers to uphold constitutional principles and legal integrity.
An AI-assisted legislative drafting model is being developed to help draft laws and gather stakeholder feedback, while preserving accountability, transparency, privacy, and constitutional safeguards.
The ecosystem is presented as globally open for collaboration, with bilingual accessibility and interoperability to co-create next-generation, intelligence-led regulation aligned with constitutional principles and public welfare.
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