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The Dubai AI Board

Tariq — CEO & Board Chair

"The board had to govern what none of them fully understood.
Asking for help felt like admitting weakness."

A boardroom in Dubai. An AI deployment ready to launch. A briefing document the room is looking away from.

The Story

What would you do?

Please choose:

Let the implementation proceed. The insurance case was poor execution, not a structural problem. Our safeguards are better.

Ask the implementation team to address the insurance case in the Q&A. Keep the meeting moving.

Raise the insurance case as a risk to be managed, and request a modified timeline with additional safeguards.

Say: "Before we proceed, I want to name what I think we are looking away from. Can we spend thirty minutes asking not 'Can we deploy?' but 'Should we — and if so, how, and what must we protect?'"

Here is what actually happened.

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