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EPIC – Emirati Perspectives and Insight Centre is an independent research centre based in the United Arab Emirates. It studies how artificial intelligence, data and emerging technologies are reshaping governance, public institutions and society in the Gulf and the wider Arab world, and how extremist ideologies form and spread. Its work joins philosophy, policy analysis and regional knowledge to offer clear, evidence-based insight for decision-makers, researchers and the public.
How AI enters public administration, law and the institutions of the state.
Trust, responsibility and justice as machines take on human judgement.
The philosophical structure of ideologies that license violence.
The Muslim Brotherhood presents European democracies with a problem their constitutional traditions were not built to solve. Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a political project, it has operated in Europe for decades through…
Public debate about artificial intelligence in government usually asks whether machine outputs are accurate, fair or explainable. This paper asks a prior question: by what right does a machine output bind anyone? Drawing on…
Commercial aviation is the outstanding success story of human-machine collaboration. Between the decades 2006–2015 and 2016–2025 the worldwide commercial jet fleet's fatal accident rate fell by 60 per cent while departures grew…
The prevailing picture of AI risk is a picture of error: the machine is wrong and we are misled. This paper argues that a more insidious risk lies in relief. A fluent, confident answer relieves the discomfort of not knowing, and…
When artificial intelligence (AI) systems rank, flag, and recommend inside public administration, the philosophically interesting question is not only whether their outputs are accurate but where advice ends and authoritative…
Arabic is spoken by hundreds of millions of people, but it is not one variety. Arabic speakers write and speak formally in Modern Standard Arabic and live much of their lives in regional dialects that differ widely from it and…
A fortnightly digest of new research and analysis from the Centre.
Emirati Perspectives and Insight Centre