Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gives a speech during the World Governments Summit in Dubai on February 3, 2026. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gives a speech during the World Governments Summit in Dubai on February 3, 2026. The Spanish government has called for an investigation into social media giants X, Meta, and TikTok over their alleged role in producing and spreading AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The Council of Ministers will invoke Article 8 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecution Service to request that it investigate the crimes that X, Meta and TikTok may be committing through the creation and dissemination of child pornography by means of their AI, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote on X on Tuesday. Sánchez accused the platforms of "attacking the mental health, dignity and rights of our sons and daughters," saying that "the impunity of the giants must end."

In spite of incidents of inaccuracy and bias, agencies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) court judges are starting to get accepted. However, AI has a lot to learn before we allow it to judge our moral behavior. Ganes Kesari, Co-Founder and Head of Analytics at Gramener, tells The Sociable that right now AI is not ready to take decisions on cases, and even in the future, it would be better off in the court in an assistant's role. AI needs to acquire skills in'understanding' context and interpreting scenarios "Today, AI is more suited to play the role of a judicial assistant than that of a criminal judge. It is smart at processing details, summarizing cases and looking up references. It is not ready to take decisions on cases just as yet," he says.

Billionaire Elon Musk has said cash handouts'will be necessary' if robots take human jobs, in his latest flurry of tweets. Musk made the comment in response to a question from a Twitter user about whether he supported universal basic income (UBI) - a cash handout that could be given to people irrespective of their employment. Musk believes UBI could be a possible solution for unemployment caused by machines taking over the workforce. Billionaire Elon Musk has said cash handouts'will be necessary' if robots take human jobs, in his latest flurry of tweets A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month. Musk first joined the growing list of tech executives supporting the payment system in 2016 when he spoke about the concept in an interview.

Malcolm Gladwell, among accomplishments including being appointed to the Order of Canada, is the author of numerous New York Times best sellers such as Blink, Outliers and The Tipping Point. Gladwell is not only a journalist, author, public figure and speaker, he is also a staple in influencing and observing social sciences while leading the way for thousands of entrepreneurs to think critically regarding their business endeavors. I was invited to speak this year at the summit in Dubai and had an opportunity to talk with Gladwell about artificial intelligence, the future of technology and, of course, whether or not he was a dork in high school. As an entrepreneur, we often have a feeling of being different or separate from others and their way of thinking. So, of course, I wanted to hear that Gladwell felt that same way.

World governments have an insatiable need to make incremental improvements in the services they deliver while at the same time tackling the longer-term public sector challenges that limit their socioeconomic potential. As leading nations have discovered, the right use of digital technology is the pathway to achieving both objectives. Successful nations have technology strategies that are both aggressively practical and profoundly aspirational. A breakthrough global public-private partnership recently collaborated to identify the top 10 government technology (govtech) initiatives worldwide that will contribute the most to sustainable improvements in 192 countries' economies and societies. MIT Technology Review Insights and the United Arab Emirates-based World Government Summit (WGS), a non-government organization promoting future-oriented public-private dialogue, worked together to select the most interesting govtech implementations from among the world's more innovative initiatives.

I recently spoke at a panel/debate at the World Government Summit in Dubai and also attended the AI Roundtable organized by the AI society at Harvard Kennedy school of government. The topic discussed was "Is a machine-driven world better? I was on the side of the Machines. Not an easy debate – someone referred to us as the'evil team'! After the panel, I shared my thoughts with Gregory Piatetsky Shapiro. Gregory motivated me to also consider the contra perspective i.e. the risks of an AI driven world.

For years now, some of the smartest and most influential people on Earth have been warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence, laying out nightmarish scenarios that sound like they were pulled from the pages of a Hollywood script. Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist, has given humanity a tight deadline for escaping the planet. Disease-fighting business magnate Bill Gates, meanwhile, has said he doesn't understand why "some people are not concerned" about the threat posed by super-intelligent machines. However, Kevin Kelly, the executive editor of Wired magazine, is offering a decidedly optimistic answer to Gates's question. Contrasting humans with technology ignores something that has been true for the past 10,000 years or so -- something there's no coming back from, Kelly told a reporter at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this month.

Digital Information World recently published an infographic that outlines the trends in AI and machine learning to be expected in 2018. The research comes from CB Insights, Callaghan Innovation, PwCDigital, Forrester, and Gartner. Businesses, particularly in the healthcare, finance, commerce and agriculture industries, are increasingly investing in AI and machine learning solutions. In 2017, 51% of companies said they would incorporate AI and machine learning into their business processes. For 2018, the percentage of companies pledging to use some form of AI jumped to 70% of those surveyed.

By 2050, humans will ditch speech and communicate using nothing but their thoughts. Called HIBA, which stands for Hybrid Intelligence Biometric Avatar, the consciousness will take on the personas of its users and exchange information between them. That's according to Marko Krajnovic, the producer of the exhibit in Dubai that is this week showcasing predictions by AI experts. Get Free Crypto Coins Daily, No strings Attached!

Can you actually have a state "minister of artificial intelligence"? Yes: The United Arab Emirates has actually appointed one. He is State Minister of AI Omar bin Sultan Al Olama. And, during an interview, he told me he is confident about the future of artificial intelligence in his desert nation and the civic benefits that will emerge from these advancements. Certainly, it's common knowledge that the UAE is leading developments in artificial intelligence; and other governments are taking notice.