The White House has privately addressed concerns over an increasingly close relationship between Beijing and private industry in the Middle East that could see Chinese influence over powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) models. "It's very reminiscent of the Huawei issue where you have these technologies with 5G," Dr. Georgianna Shea, the chief technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, told Fox News Digital. "Everyone's using [5G], so that it becomes a backdoor into a lot of different systems within the United States," Shea said. "AI offers that same opportunity when [China] partners with our allies: They can both get in on the development side of it and, possibly, skew some of those biases or directly go through and pull out the intellectual property from what's being put into the model." The Biden administration has made clear in private discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the oil-rich nation should pay close attention to ties between Beijing and the Emirati company G42, which launched its Jais AI model – reportedly the most advanced Arab-language AI model.