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10/14/25, 8:53 AM UAE minister says investment videos of him circulating online are deepfakes | Khaleej Times
sectors. Authorities in the UAE issue advisories time and again against such fake content and posts,
asking residents and investors to source information only through official channels.

80% non-oil economy in 5 years

Al Marri added that the world economy is witnessing a “little bit of peace” after Covid-19 pandemic
and wars in the world, but now the challenge of AI race and talent is rising.

“This is not a race with other countries. It's a race with ourselves.

Our economy, five years ago, was 69 per cent non-oil economy after Covid, and today we are about
77.3 per cent non-oil. As we are diversifying, I want non-oil to reach 80 per cent of non-oil in the next
five years,” the minister added.

Highlighting the importance of artificial intelligence, Al Marri added that countries like spend budgets
on defence, cybersecurity, they will have to spend budget on AI as well.

“AI is a sovereignty for every single nation. So, the race is not across the street or across countries,
it's a race within us – how infrastructure is built, talent is groomed, strategies is aligned, SMEs are
grown,” he said during a fireside chat on the first day of Gitex Global 2025.

He pointed out that the UAE’s launch of 10-year residency visas, the launch of AI university and
companies such as G42 are aimed at attracting and grooming talent in the country.

He stressed having the best talent “because you might have beautiful ideas, but you don't have the
right talent to actually process it. Even technology cannot progress alone. You have to have people
who will actually help the technology to progress.”

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