The president of international climate conference COP28 works with surveillance experts linked to a phone tapping scandal and the “Chinese military industrial complex”, openDemocracy can reveal.
Sultan Al Jaber – who is the chair of a new “AI university” in the United Arab Emirates as well as the organiser of COP, which begins on Thursday – has claimed that AI will “unlock advances in climate progress”.
But his connections to the global surveillance industry underline concerns that the UAE may spy on delegates and campaigners at this week’s UN climate conference.
