(26 May 2025)
UAE MEDIA SUMMIT
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dubai – 26 May 2025
1. Media participants at the Arab Media Summit
2. Sign reading (English/Arabic): "Arab Media Summit"
3. Participants at summit
4. TV studio with cameras and lighting
5. Various of workshop
6. TV studio with officials giving live interview
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Elias Bou Saab, deputy speaker of Lebanese Parliament and vice president of American University of Dubai:
"In the past, we used to have a newspaper, television, or a radio. Now we have a broadcaster in every house. (People) can use their phone, they can become a media source and they can create information, create content and distribute it. So, we have to follow, we need to make sure that the governments first legalize or put the right laws in place."
8. Participants
9. Media crew
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Elias Bou Saab, deputy speaker of Lebanese Parliament and vice president of American University of Dubai:
"Where is AI (artificial intelligence) taking us? What’s going to happen with it in the future when everyone is going be depending solely on the artificial intelligence, and on ChatGPT, and what have you? So, the important (matter) is to make sure that we use it in right way. We make sure that our students do not solely depend on artificial intelligence. They still think, they still create, and not purely go online and search for anything they are looking for and let the artificial intelligence do the job. We need to keep the creation, we need to the students thinking. We need the generation, all thinking to feed AI and not vice versa."
11. Participants at the Arab Media Summit
12. Various of media crews
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Moussa al-Omar, communication officer in the new Syrian government:
"We need to train our professionals in Syria to find media opportunities for our youth because there are a lot of them. And the Syrian youth are creative in the media (scene), strong in the Arabic language, also strong when it comes to innovation and many other things that can benefit the Syrian youth. So, I imagine that this is an opportunity for us to take a flower from every garden and benefit from that in Syria."
14. Various of participants and TV studios
15. Media workshop
16. Various of gaming plenary session
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of media professionals talked about the future of the Middle East’s media scene on Monday, during the opening day of the Arab Media Summit which is held in Dubai.
The three-day summit will feature 175 sessions, 35 workshops and 300 speakers including representatives of traditional media outlets, social media content creators and officials.
Summit participants are examining the future of the media at a time of digital transformation and rapid changes.
"Now we have a broadcaster in every house," and anyone can "create content and distribute it," said Elias Bou Saab, the vice president of the American University of Dubai.
Bou Saab, who also serves as deputy speaker of Lebanese Parliament, believes that laws have to put in place as people’s reliance on technology increases.
Since AI surged into public awareness with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, legacy media have grappled with how best to use the technology, and whether to cooperate with or even combat the companies behind it.
"Where is AI (artificial intelligence) taking us? What’s going to happen with it in the future when everyone is going be depending solely on the artificial intelligence?" Bou Saab said.
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