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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on August 7, 2026 at 2:48am

who determines Arabian ai exponential consequences - UAE? Saudi? (4 seas mapping?); whats role of Turkey AI and Swiss AI -relayed educational resourcecatholicuni.com

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UAE AI

2026 still expected to host itu plenopotentiary

- 2027 shares world ai summit with switzerland (Geneva June)

2028 host world ai summit

-role of uk as desert's singapore- early on arabian money went into key London properties eg Mayfair region and eg dubai headhunted english speaking tech researchers

Jensen Huang has ling relationship celebrating llm connecting arabian languages and open weight ai models to reflect regional culture; UAE AI coordinator Alolama stays uptodate with eg friends of nvidias platforms - largely uae has kept chinese tech out unlike saudi which tests both us and chinese 6g tech

africa and global south ai watches all of this closely!

the whole region is at turning poiint now that it finds us bases doent protect its peoples; relatively energy and cooling needs of big dat centers anot a problem in region;its most interested on next 10 year investment not 90 days; 

if world economic forum transforms into WAIF or IR4 forum - what will arabian role be- early on 1970s WEF's significance was meeting place with new arabian money

note also world expo series uae 2021; ktoto 2025; saudi 2030

;largely speaking uae strategy is 100% employment of its peoples whilst hiring diaspora workers for construction and temp services - qatar (through first lady's foundations and women uni campus which includes one of the 4 world cup football pitches and helps train diversity of a al jazeera media - in particulae hosts tranformative summits around education  WISE (begfun with abed 2012 and health (WISH)

the whole region is choked or liberated by 4 seas ; 

Arabian region (both side of hormuz makes Muslims biggest monetary investments even though East asia eg indosesia and bangladesh are more populous

Long term support for abed came from interesting sources - eg abdul larif jama - toyora franchise in saudi and middle east

islamic banking

arguably big moeny in Arabia region freer to choose what next generation needs than countries with more formal investment sustems especially those tied to pensioners needs instead of youth's need

Permalink Reply by chris macrae on August 7, 2026 at 2:49am

Saudi AI may yet determine which of 4 opposite proposals fore 6G helps multiply which of ai's 5 layers and whether open weight ai models win out over closed ones (except for defence?)

1 currently only china operate 6g and leads in real usage cases- saudi is monitoring this; fall 2028 watch out for shangai UN Radion summit liely to show greatest use cases of china's 6G 

through uae saudi sees what happens to those dependenr on us tech and its latest proposals for 6g and genesias

meanwhile musk sees space and other future interactions with 6g as beyongd all the national territorial control of data mapping across world

nvidia open weight models suggest global sector by sector may need a 6g which truly frees learning if not speech; put another way which regions lead which future global market sectors deepens on ai platforms and connections with space not just earth's 6g; moreover great keaps in maths on quantum and fusion may change everything; timing back the future has never needed as much trust and tranparent data

overall saudi is likely to be absolutely key to what happens next as every regions trade depends on future of the 4 seas

Permalink Reply by chris macrae on August 7, 2026 at 2:50am

Turkey AI

gemini says:

Turkey acts as a critical "middle power" gatekeeper that can either unify or fragment regional AI. This dynamic is unfolding rapidly across three major technological vectors: Turkey’s 2026–2030 National AI Action Plan, the Great Turkic Language Model initiative, and a massive geopolitical alignment with Saudi Arabia. [1, 2, 4, 5]

8/7/26 Just today, a historic trilateral defense pact was signed in Jeddah between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. This agreement establishes a structured axis for deep military, industrial, and high-level intelligence sharing—setting the stage for how these nations will connect artificial intelligence over the next two years. [1, 2, 3]

  1. Switzerland 2027: The Regulatory & Public Data Connector

When Switzerland and the UAE co-chair the Geneva AI Summit in June 2027, the Swiss objective will be to establish global standards for AI governance and public-utility metadata. [1, 2, 3]

  • Where It Connects: Turkey is actively positioning itself as a sovereign data repository. Under its newly unveiled 2026 AI Action Plan, President Erdogan committed to opening a National Data Library making 2,000 public datasets accessible. Switzerland’s multilateral framework (via the UN and World Meteorological Organization) will seamlessly integrate Turkey’s data for global meteorological and public health modeling. [1]
  • Where It Disconnects: Turkey is rapidly transitioning from "soft" ethical guidelines to a binding, highly restrictive statutory AI Law framework. Ankara’s focus on heavy state-controlled regulation and strict digital borders may clash with the open, cross-border standardizations that Switzerland aims to champion. [1]
  1. UAE 2028: The Infrastructure & Language Disconnector

The UAE’s 2028 summit will be focused on execution, agentic government automation, and sprawling commercial data centers backed by their MGX fund. [1, 2]

  • Where It Connects: Both Turkey and the UAE are scaling compute hardware. Turkey aims to hit 1 Gigawatt of data center capacity by 2030. They share a common commercial interest in securing supply lines for next-generation chips (like Nvidia's Vera Rubin or upcoming Feynman systems). [1]
  • Where It Disconnects: Turkey is building an explicit alternative to Western and Gulf-dominated models. Through the Organization of Turkic States, Turkey is building the Great Turkic Language Model (covering Oghuz, Kipchak, and Karluk dialects). This acts as an "epistemic buffer" stretching from the Balkans to Central Asia. It prevents their regional cognitive infrastructure from being absorbed by Abu Dhabi’s models (like Falcon) or Western ecosystems, creating a sharp divide in language-model sovereignty. [1, 2, 3]
  1. How Saudi Arabia Mediates the Axis (Plan B Intermediary)

Saudi Arabia is the ultimate bridge that prevents the region from fracturing. Riyadh’s massive HUMAIN fund and its goal of 6 Gigawatts of AI capacity are being deliberately paired with Turkish engineering.

                  [ THE SAUDI ARABIA MEDIATION BUFFER ]

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[ INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER ]                                  [ COGNITIVE LAYER ]

  • Saudi Capital & Clean Energy (6GW) • Joint Defense & Intelligence Sharing
  • Coupled with Turkish Fabs & Zones • Merging Edge Drone AI (Baykar/HAVELSAN)
  • Feeds Swiss 2027 Public Framework • Shields from UAE / Western Dominance
  • The Defense-AI Lock: Turkey is an undisputed leader in tactical edge AI, driven by autonomous drone manufacturers like Baykar and defense-tech giants like HAVELSAN (creators of the 9-billion-parameter Bilge model). Today's historic trilateral defense pact in Jeddah formalizes this reality. Saudi Arabia is financing the integration of Turkey's battlefield-tested autonomous algorithms directly into the Kingdom's data center fabric. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • The Energy-to-Compute Pipeline: Under intergovernmental agreements signed this year, Saudi Arabia is deploying billions into Turkish green energy infrastructure. They are using this clean power to fuel Turkey's newly designated AI Development Zones. [1, 2, 3]

The Synthesis

Saudi Arabia is successfully acting as the unifying link. By signing deep military-intelligence pacts with Turkey today, while simultaneously backing the global multilateral forums in Switzerland and the UAE, Riyadh ensures that Turkey’s unique "middle power" capabilities—its Turkic language systems and advanced defense robotics—are securely bound to the broader regional AI network rather than operating as an isolated, disruptive force. [1, 2, 3]

Permalink Reply by chris macrae on August 7, 2026 at 3:51am

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Permalink Reply by chris macrae on August 7, 2026 at 8:57am

we discuss relationship accelerating between Swiss and Arabian Ai 2027-8 at http://www.economistdiary.com/2026/06 prevuously we were looking at Arabian Ai and world trade mapping like this

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2026 is 50th year my family's publications and advisory have mapped hypothesis- tech and ai for good will only advance our childrens lives if we transform 20th C health and education. Check out our 1984 health futures survey- join 400 most radical education redesigners at ed3dao, or help re-edit curricula at www.catholicuni.com  chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970

Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
 1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
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IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE? 
 - we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the  tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to  mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech  over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my father www.normanmacrae.net at the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book 2025 report, retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally  cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with  great womens education hero bangladesh's fazle abed;  Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges 
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and  tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ;   it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc

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please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 1 2 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain  locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around   adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi

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