DIFC Autonomous Systems Officer (ASO) Survey

1. What is the size of your organization? *This question is required.

• 0-9
• 10-49
• 50-249
• 250-999
• 1000+

2. What is your industry sector? *This question is required.

• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Technology & Software Development
• Government & Public Sector
• Consultancy / Professional Services
• Other - Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

3. Does your company use autonomous or semi-autonomous systems (e.g., artificial intelligence or AI)? *This question is required.

• Yes, extensively
• Yes, moderately
• No, but we are evaluating AI Solutions
• Not currently with no plans to adopt soon
• Not officially although employees may be utilizing built in or off the shelf AI solutions, potentially without permission / of their own volition

4. What types of AI does your company currently use? (select any that apply) *This question is required.

• Model Development
• Use of vendor propriety AI within products (e.g., Co-pilot)
• Use of self-hosted, closed models (e.g. OpenAI on Azure)
• Use of provider hosted models (e.g. ChatGPT)
• Use of self-hosted, open models (e.g. Llama)
• We think we are using AI but we aren't sure
• We are not currently using AI solutions
• Other - Please enter an 'other' value for this selection. * This question is required.

5. In which business functions do you currently use, or plan to use AI ? (select any that apply)

• Customer service
• Predictive analytics
• Operations and supply chain management
• Human Resources
• Marketing and personalization
• Financial management
• Product development or R&D
• Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting)
• Other - Please enter an 'other' value for this selection. * This question is required.

6. How would you rank the necessity of the use of AI in the above business functions from 1 to 5, with 5 being most important?  *This question is required.

Space Cell	1	2	3	4	5
Customer service	Customer service: 1	Customer service: 2	Customer service: 3	Customer service: 4	Customer service: 5
Predictive analytics	Predictive analytics: 1	Predictive analytics: 2	Predictive analytics: 3	Predictive analytics: 4	Predictive analytics: 5
Operations and supply chain management	Operations and supply chain management: 1	Operations and supply chain management: 2	Operations and supply chain management: 3	Operations and supply chain management: 4	Operations and supply chain management: 5
Human Resources	Human Resources: 1	Human Resources: 2	Human Resources: 3	Human Resources: 4	Human Resources: 5
Marketing and personalization	Marketing and personalization: 1	Marketing and personalization: 2	Marketing and personalization: 3	Marketing and personalization: 4	Marketing and personalization: 5
Financial management	Financial management: 1	Financial management: 2	Financial management: 3	Financial management: 4	Financial management: 5
Product development or R&D	Product development or R&D: 1	Product development or R&D: 2	Product development or R&D: 3	Product development or R&D: 4	Product development or R&D: 5
Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting)	Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting): 1	Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting): 2	Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting): 3	Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting): 4	Compliance (including legal, risk, reporting): 5
Others	Others: 1	Others: 2	Others: 3	Others: 4	Others: 5

7. How important do you think it is to have an AI Officer role?  *This question is required.

• Very important
• Important
• Not sure
• Not important
• Depends on cost of compliance

8. Does your organisation currently have a dedicated AI Officer / Automated Systems Officer (ASO) or equivalent role? *This question is required.

• Yes (dedicated headcount)
• Yes (but this person double hats with Data Protection Officer (DPO), Compliance and/or other existing headcount role)
• No
• Under Consideration