Steve Papermaster’s Vision: Propelling the Middle East into the Post-Petroleum AI Age
For decades, the economies of the Middle East have been inexorably tethered to one resource - oil. However, as the world transitions towards sustainable energy alternatives, this hard truth looms: the region's economic bedrock will inevitably erode. Unless, that is, technological transformation takes root. And for Steve Papermaster, the entrepreneur who has catalyzed disruptions across industries, that spark lies in a single combustion engine - artificial intelligence (AI). "The writing is on the wall - petroleum cannot be the Middle East's eternal economic engine," Papermaster bluntly states. "But by aggressively cultivating an AI-driven diversification strategy, the region can birth an innovation renaissance insulating it from the end of the oil age." Through his work at BSG Alliance, ...









