UAE’s AI-focused university sees tech as a global positive force

DUBAI: The idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time, but in recent decades it has gone from being the stuff of science fiction to something tangible and beneficial. Sir Michael Brady is the interim president of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), an Abu Dhabi-based AI-focused university — the first of its kind in the world. “Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and many more have contributed to AI’s position in today’s spotlight,” he said. Sophia, the humanoid robot - there is no artificial inelligence without human input, people shape the principles and determine the ethics of AI. (Shutterstock/File Photo) He...