AI Everywhere: How UAE Business Leaders View AI in Life, Work and Society

The UAE is a pivotal market for AI adoption. It has recently amplified its AI ambitions with a string of major investment strategies, including a landmark agreement with the US to construct the world’s largest AI campus outside the United States, in Abu Dhabi; and a commitment to fund a $1.4 trillion investment framework over the next decade, targeting key sectors including AI.  

These developments underscore the region’s strategic vision to become a global hub for AI innovation. How local businesses engage with and react to AI will have far-reaching consequences as they guide massive budgets, workforces, machinery, and payments infrastructure. Their insights will help you better understand and contribute to public discourse, business strategy and policy direction.  

Endava’s latest research report explores the reality of AI, not as a prediction but as people are experiencing it in the here and now. We spoke to 300 UAE business leaders, asking them about AI in business, in their personal lives, and their views of AI in society and government’s role. 

Let’s find out what they said.