Abu Dhabi is putting roughly $3.5 billion, around 13 billion dirham, behind an effort to rebuild how its government interacts with residents, aiming to replace routine paperwork and service requests with AI systems that anticipate what people need before they ask.
The push builds on AutoGov, launched through the emirate’s TAMM app in October 2025, a unified digital platform that already centralizes more than 1,000 government services. AutoGov is designed to handle recurring tasks automatically, including renewing licenses, paying bills and booking routine health appointments, without residents needing to initiate each request themselves.
Officials say car registration can already be processed automatically through the government app, and are now exploring whether passport renewals could eventually happen without a resident filing a request at all, shifting government services from something people apply for to something that simply happens on their behalf.
Alongside the technology rollout, Abu Dhabi's Department of Government Enablement announced an AiNative training program on October 7, developed jointly with OpenAI, Microsoft and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, with a goal of training 20,000 government employees by the end of 2026.
Abu Dhabi has set itself the target of becoming the world's first fully AI-native government by 2027, a framing officials have used to argue the shift is less about simply automating existing paperwork and more about rethinking how public services are delivered from the ground up.
The initiative places Abu Dhabi among a small group of governments globally racing to embed AI directly into public administration, with the emirate's leaders betting that a government capable of acting proactively, rather than reactively processing applications, will become a meaningful differentiator in attracting residents, businesses and investment.
