UAE minister says US fears over Middle East becoming an AI proxy for China are valid

Fears that China could be using Middle East countries as a proxy to overcome US sanctions on machine learning accelerators are justifiable, according to the United Arab Emirates minister of AI and digital economy. Speaking on Bloomberg TV, Omar Al Olama, said American officials had good reason to be concerned about the region …

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Friends of convenience

The UAE is only America's friend while they still have oil to sell them and cash to buy arms from them. The same applies to most of the Western countries.

Otherwise they'd already have the pariah state label that they fully deserve given their human rights record.

[Anonymous Coward]

So naive

From the article

"I think concerns about chips coming to the Middle East and going to China are valid concerns for any country that has adversaries," he told Bloomberg, casting the UAE as a sort of exception to this."

Exception??? Get a grip. Do they really think that they are immune to the "pressure" the U.S. have put on their "allies"?

As in, "do what we say or sanctions".

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Audit

I think they need to give the UAE an Oracle style audit to make sure all the GPUs they have bought are in the country - or else!