Dubai has appointed a “State Minister for Artificial Intelligence”

The UAE’s first State Minister for Artificial Intelligence is 27-year-old Omar Bin Sultan Al Olama.
Olama is one of six newly appointed ministers, three of whom were women, who represent a new phase in the UAE’s pursuit of “future skills, future sciences and future technology, as we prepare for the centenary to ensure a better future for our generations,” UAE Vice-President and Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum said.
Now so surprisingly, the regular (tech) narrative in India is about religion, caste system, cow urine – i.e. we are going backwards while the world is waking up to realize the impact of AI.