A UAE brigadier general received permission from the Pentagon to recruit former members of the Defense Digital Service to work on artificial intelligence for the UAE military — despite past warnings from US spy agencies and federal lawmakers that UAE could share AI technologies with China The meeting between the DDS workers and the UAE military officer included an AI executive based in Abu Dhabi who has direct ties to an Emirati firm singled out last year by US intelligence officials and federal lawmakers for alleged work with China’s government and intelligence services, raising questions about how technologies done by US workers recruited to the UAE could be used and shared. The UAE officer who made the pitch to recruit the US workers went through official channels by contacting a U.S.