The UAE Cabinet’s General Secretariat has launched a whitepaper at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos setting out the UAE’s vision and applied model for a “Regulatory Intelligence Ecosystem” that would move regulation from a static rulebook toward a continuously adapting, data- and AI-enabled system. Developed with Presight and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the paper introduces a Regulatory Intelligence Glossary to standardise concepts across legislators, policymakers and technology developers, and describes a Unified Regulatory Digital Twin intended to monitor regulatory change in real time, analyse data, propose legislative amendments, link to enforcement and judicial application mechanisms, and simulate economic and societal impacts. It also sets out a Sovereign Governance-in-the-Loop framework positioning AI as an assistant with humans retained as decision-makers at critical points, alongside proposals for hybrid legal-technology roles and a “Regulatory Intelligence Innovation Loop” to govern the proposing, evaluation, piloting and deployment of new AI use cases. The UAE positions the discipline as open, bilingual and interoperable, and frames the publication as an invitation for international collaboration.
UAE Cabinet 2026-01-22
UAE Cabinet launches whitepaper proposing a living AI-powered Regulatory Intelligence Ecosystem
The UAE Cabinet’s General Secretariat launched a whitepaper at the World Economic Forum in Davos outlining a vision for a “Regulatory Intelligence Ecosystem” using data and AI for adaptive regulation. Developed with Presight and PricewaterhouseCoopers, it introduces a Regulatory Intelligence Glossary and a Unified Regulatory Digital Twin for real-time monitoring and legislative analysis. The paper also proposes a Sovereign Governance-in-the-Loop framework, hybrid legal-technology roles, and a “Regulatory Intelligence Innovation Loop” for AI use case development, inviting international collaboration.