While Saudi Arabia was finally ranked second in the world in societal awareness of artificial intelligence, according to the international list ranked by the American Stanford University in its international research index for artificial intelligence 2023 AD, the national achievements in digital business continue in an escalating manner, reflecting the digital transformation efforts led by the Crown Prince within the framework of the vision 2030, which seeks to enhance digital governance, facilitate business, raise levels of quality of life, and increase the level of confidence of Saudi citizens in dealing with artificial intelligence products and services in the Kingdom and its positive impact in the future; It clearly confirms the ambitious forward-looking vision of the Crown Prince, during which he called for building a pioneering model to unleash the value of data and artificial intelligence to build knowledge economies and advance our present and future generations.
The centers of excellence launched by the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SADAIA), in cooperation with a number of government agencies, contributed to harnessing artificial intelligence technologies to serve its goals and develop its products in the fields of research and innovation that cover all vital areas. In the field of local and international awareness, SADAIA organized the World Summit on Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence in its versions in 2020 and 2022 AD, and also worked to establish the SDAIA Academy, which aims to develop youth energies interested in artificial intelligence, and many other meetings, forums and publications. SADAIA has a major role in launching international initiatives in artificial intelligence. Including launching the principles of artificial intelligence ethics and joining the digital development partnership under the umbrella of the World Bank. SADAIA worked on scientific, health and environmental projects, launched the Center of Excellence in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with KAUST University, established the Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, established the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Environment, Water and Agriculture in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, and launched The Smart Planet program is part of its environmental projects, and it also played an important role in linguistic enrichment by preparing a “data dictionary and artificial intelligence” and launching the “Your Voice” platform. “Sadaia” published on its official website and its accounts on social networking sites the results of the survey and statistics on the rate of confidence of citizens in dealing with products. Artificial intelligence and its services.
Yazen Nayef @yazenjh, “Okaz” (Riyadh) @okaz_online