Dubai utility adopts Smart Dubai ethical AI toolkit

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has adopted the use of Smart Dubai's Ethical AI Toolkit. It reports using it for 13 artificial intelligence (AI) use cases across various departments, registering an average performance rate of almost 90 per cent on complying with the principles and guidelines set out. Smart Dubai developed the toolkit to set clear guidelines on the ethical use of AI to prevent having a fragmented, incoherent approach to ethics, where every entity sets its own rules. Dewa's use of the toolkit was spread across several different departments. The Innovation & the Future (I&TF) division's use cases included outage planning and load forecasting, solar power generation forecasting, network design and area planning, visual inspection on solar photovoltaics and the virtual assistant Rammas.