Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Deputy Minister in charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, highlighted the critical importance of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into national strategies to safeguard sovereignty during the opening of Morocco’s first National AI Conference on Tuesday. She emphasized that AI is no longer a distant future concept but a present reality already reshaping vital sectors.
Seghrouchni explained that AI is transforming social protection, education, health, finance, and urban planning—challenging traditional principles of equity, efficiency, reliability, and sovereignty. She urged that AI be recognized not merely as a technical tool but as a core institutional responsibility requiring a fundamental rethink of public sector operations and the rebuilding of trust between citizens and the state.
Addressing the rapid evolution of AI, the minister stressed a dual responsibility: avoiding outdated administrative models while maintaining agility to realign national strategies such as the Digital Morocco 2030 plan toward full AI integration.
She also highlighted AI’s paradoxical nature, with the power either to reinforce inequalities or to promote social justice and equitable access to opportunities and resources.
Drawing on Morocco’s strategic position within Africa, Seghrouchni framed AI as both a global technological race and a matter of symbolic and material sovereignty, where global power balances are being redefined.
She concluded by calling for a sovereign, nation-level approach to AI governance driven by a genuine will for reform and courageous leadership, enabling artificial intelligence to serve as a true catalyst for Morocco’s sustainable development.
