The UAE Cabinet approved the Cabinet AI Advisor system on September 2, 2026, the Emirates News Agency reported from Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister, said the system uses 32 specialized AI advisors that analyze policies and legislation, assess their impact, review global practice, and put recommendations in front of ministers. He said the advisors will work with the Cabinet 24 hours a day and follow decisions through implementation.

WAM said the tool is meant to speed the study of projects and initiatives and to raise the quality of government output. It sits under the Ministerial Council for Artificial Intelligence and Development and is part of a new operating model that embeds agentic AI in Cabinet work. The same meeting launched what Sheikh Mohammed called the largest transformation project for government services using agentic AI, a “strategic, national and forward-looking” program he told every team to join.

The Cabinet also reviewed a plan to train 22,000 teachers and educators to use AI in teaching, assessment, curriculum analysis, and lesson planning. Ministers approved a mechanism to share the UAE’s AI school curriculum with education ministries abroad. WAM restated last year’s digital-government numbers: more than 308 million digital transactions, 15.8 million application downloads across 1,633 services, and 92 percent satisfaction on priority services.

“The system will work with our ministers, 24 hours a day, to follow up on decisions and their implementation.” Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister, UAE, via WAM

Decoded Take

This is a procurement and process story dressed as a model story. Thirty-two named “advisors” in the Cabinet room means someone has to own the prompt, the retrieval set, and the override when a recommendation collides with a minister’s politics. The 24-hour follow-up line is the tell: the UAE is trying to turn agentic AI into a chase function for decisions that already exist, not a speechwriter. Watch whether WAM later names the stack (a local model, a Gulf sovereign lab, or a U.S. API), whether Cabinet papers start carrying an AI-advisor annex that civil servants can contest, and whether the teacher-training cohort of 22,000 is measured by classroom use or by certificates issued. A system that only summarizes global best practice is a briefing note. A system that can stall a file until a human signs the override is a new layer of government.