Workshop 5 / GRM 2026
Rational Agency and Uncertain Futures: AI’s Role in the Gulf Region

Abstract

This workshop explores how Artificial Intelligence is transforming rational agency—the ability of individuals, institutions, and societies to make coherent, goal-directed decisions—within environments shaped by complex and intersecting uncertainties. These uncertainties extend beyond incomplete information to include unpredictable technological advances, volatile global markets, environmental stresses, shifting socio-economic conditions, and geopolitical change.The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) offers a distinctive and timely context for this inquiry. Rapid AI adoption is embedded in ambitious national development strategies, large-scale digital infrastructure investments, and accelerated economic diversification agendas. In this dynamic setting, AI is not only a tool for decision support but a force that reframes decision-making processes, reshapes strategic priorities, and influences governance structures.Drawing on decision theory, probabilistic reasoning, reinforcement learning, and governance studies, the workshop will investigate how AI affects human and institutional rationality under uncertainty. Sessions will address uncertainty modeling, ethical and policy implications, and sector-specific case studies in energy, finance, healthcare, climate adaptation, and smart city planning. The aim is to bridge global theoretical debates with the Gulf’s unique realities, producing insights and recommendations to ensure that AI’s growing influence enhances resilience, transparency, and cultural alignment in an unpredictable future.




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