Saudi Arabia Pledges to Develop Ethical AI and Support Global AI Rules

Saudi Arabia pledges to support ethical AI development and global government. It wants to be a leader in AI and help shape the rules that govern it around the world.

The head of the National Data Management Office at the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA), Fahd Al-Rabadi, said that Saudi Arabia, through SDAIA, is committed to promoting the growth of ethical and responsible AI both in Saudi Arabia and around the world.

He talked about how important SDAIA is for strengthening global attempts to govern artificial intelligence by keeping an eye on development, regulation, and management in Saudi Arabia.

This is what Al-Rabadi said at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the High-Level Meeting on International Governance of Artificial Intelligence 2024, which took place in Shanghai from July 4–6, 2024.

Al-Rabadi talked about how much money Saudi Arabia has put into AI research and development and how it has set up specialised centres in partnership with some of the biggest tech companies in the world. He said that Saudi Arabia wants to be the world leader in AI and use its disruptive power in many areas to reach the goals of Vision 2030.

He said that SDAIA works with groups, governments, and business leaders around the world to make global AI governance frameworks that encourage new ideas and support moral standards. He also talked about SDAIA’s role in the first international scientific study on the safety of advanced AI, which was written by 75 experts from 30 countries, the EU, and the UN.

Commitment to International Cooperation

Al-Rabadi said again that SDAIA is committed to AI development through international cooperation, ethical advocacy, contributions to the regulatory framework, knowledge exchange, and support for AI projects both locally and globally. He talked a lot about how important it is for AI to have ethics like honesty, fairness, privacy, safety, trustworthiness, reliability, openness, understandability, accountability, responsibility, humanity, and rewards for society and the environment.

He wanted AI to be used to make the world a better place by solving global problems, promoting sustainable growth, and making society more fair and open to everyone. Representatives from the countries at the conference were asked by Al-Rabadi to the third World Summit on Artificial Intelligence, which will be held in Riyadh in September 2024 and is being put together by Saudi Arabia and SDAIA.