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Sharjah Investment Forum to analyse how AI can change govt, investor services

SIF 2026 will examine how the technology could change government and investor services, business processes and decision-making, alongside the need for trusted data, governance, accountability and human oversight. For businesses and governments, that raises an immediate question about how much decision-making can be handed to AI, and under what safeguards.

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