For UAE tycoon Al Ketbi, mobility's future turns on AI sovereignty

The contest that will shape the next era of mobility is not over who builds the best cars or aircraft, but over who controls the artificial intelligence beneath them, Obaid Al Ketbi told the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 on Tuesday.

Al Ketbi, founder and chairman of Abu Dhabi-based Dr.

O Group Holding and a former UAE major general, argued in his keynote at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul that AI, mobility and what he called the "low-altitude economy" are converging into a s ...