UAE Cabinet Approves World-First Plan to Run 50% of Government Services on Agentic AI Within Two Years
The UAE just made the most consequential government commitment to agentic AI in history. On April 23, 2026, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that 50% of UAE federal government sectors, services, and operations will run on autonomous agentic AI models within two years — targeting April 2028 as the deadline. This isn’t a pilot program or a strategy document. It’s a Cabinet-level mandate from the VP and Prime Minister of the UAE, issued under directives from President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. It’s the first national government to put a hard percentage target on autonomous AI deployment at this scale. ...