AI recruitment raises several concerns. Existing employment laws globally already place limits on discrimination, but automated hiring tools raise newer questions around bias, audits, transparency and accountability. For regulators, the challenge is building frameworks that preserve longstanding protections while remaining proportionate to risk, adaptable to technological change and supportive of beneficial innovation.

Deepfakes are now beating the tests that banks use to prove whether you are actually you, and this is already happening on a large scale. Who is liable when a deepfake defeats bank verification: the fraudster, the bank, or no one? How are regulators are responding to this new threat? By Maria Khan For eight months, a 34-year-old in Amsterdam opened more than 40 accounts in other people's names. He simply face-swapped his image onto stolen passports and took selfies to get thr

AI sovereignty is a hard problem to solve. Some constraints are unique to the sector, such as access to semiconductor supplies and frontier models, or inherent compute ceilings. But others are more structural – these include data centres’ energy needs and their inherent vulnerabilities to real-world geopolitics. States should start thinking more about these.

The Business of Advice: Navigating the New Scarcity of Meaning The Shift in Knowledge Economy The business of advice is undergoing a profound transformation due to technology. We are moving from an era characterized by a scarcity of knowledge—the library catalogue era—to a scarcity of assembly in the search engine era. Now, with the rise of AI, we are facing a scarcity of meaning. This shift will lead to the end of the hourly billing model, the career pyramid evolving into an

A New Era in Regulatory Frameworks The UAE is deploying agentic AI for competition enforcement and merger reviews. This initiative is set to redefine how governments regulate markets and ensure they remain competitive. The UAE has taken a bold step that no other competition authority has attempted. Shortly after announcing that half of all regulatory work will be managed by AI within two years, the Ministry of Economy and Tourism issued a call for procurement. This isn't a pi

Understanding how the law comes together to establish liability, protect privacy, enforce accountability as autonomous vehicles go-live in Dubai If you have driven along Jumeirah the last two weeks, the sights and sounds have been mostly the same as they always are. The low hum of construction, the distant sound of the sea, unhurried, beneath the beach traffic, a few incredible coffee shops. But this week, something was different. Moving quietly through that familiar backdrop