OPINION:
There is only one leader on the world stage with the vision, youthful energy, financial resources, and popular support at home to usher in an era of peace and prosperity for the world. He is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman. Prince Mohammed is on a mission to deliver on a vision that can be summed up as “Advancing Human Prosperity through Global Peace.” As leader of the free world, the United States must unequivocally and wholeheartedly lend its full support to, and partner with, Prince Mohammad, Saudi Arabia’s global change agent.
For Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), global peace and stability can unleash unlimited human capital that will usher massive prosperity across the world. Nowhere is this clearer than the regional prosperity a permanent peace will deliver for Israel and its Arab neighbors, including Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Prince Mohammad’s vision starts with the premise that Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in a two-state solution. As a keen observer of history, Prince Mohammad has studied how Germany and Japan, two bitter enemies of the United States, rose from the ashes of WWII into thriving economies and became responsible global actors.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Prince Mohammad envisions a “Singapore by the Med”: A Gaza Strip that becomes a global tourist destination where Palestinians, who are by their very nature smart, hardworking, and resourceful, live productive lives instead of being governed by corrupt Hamas leaders. Washington must encourage Israel to embrace Prince Mohammad’s vision of a vibrant, corruption-free Palestinian state living next to Israel. Washington’s embrace of MBS’s vision for a permanent Arab-Israeli peace agreement that includes a free and well-governed Palestinian state will undoubtedly usher in a new renaissance for the Middle East.
The Saudi Crown Prince believes that AI will usher in the world’s fourth industrial revolution and for this reason, this global change agent believes we must start baking our common humanity into all AI platforms. In short, MBS wants to unleash the power of AI in an ethical and responsible manner for the benefit of the global community. As a keen observer of game-changing technologies, MBS sees massive potential in using AI for 3D image recognition to create equal access to quality health care across the world. How? Under MBS’s vision, when the next “Google for Image Recognition” goes live, a farmer in India or Mexico can use their phone to take photos of a mole on their arm and instantly know whether they have skin cancer or not. Given the creative mind of Prince Mohammad, the world can soon expect this global change agent to unveil a chip – let’s call it an SPU (Saudi Processing Unit) that democratizes access to low-carbon, highly accurate AI, thus making cloud infrastructure affordable and accessible to every company across the world.
For Prince Mohammed, global peace also means addressing global food security. Today 828 million people regularly go to bed hungry. As a father of five, Prince Mohammad understands this pain. Not surprisingly, Saudi Arabia has invested in a food company, Topian, focused on sustainable and innovative food solutions. Thus, for Prince Mohammad, converting the massive amount of wasted food into protein bars to address global food security is a top priority. Indeed, as a global change agent, MBS envisions the integration of graphene-layered solar panels with batteries for deployment onto greenhouses, thus allowing for 24/7 food production across the globe. By immediately partnering with Saudi Arabia’s visionary global change agent, we can start the process of eradicating world hunger.
For Crown Prince Mohammad, global peace also means protecting our planet – and lungs – by planting 1 trillion trees across the world. On this issue, MBS is on the same page as the U.S. Congress which views tree planting as an effective means to capture carbon. According to MIT, if the world realizes MBS’s vision of planting over 1 trillion trees; we can capture 2/3 of the carbon currently in the atmosphere.
Saudi Arabia’s creative global change agent also believes in uniting the world around philanthropy. Nothing matters more for MBS than for people of all faiths to unite around charitable giving. Prince Mohammad’s vision of leveraging philanthropy to build a new global
social fabric for good, as opposed to today’s social media platforms that cause disunity, is truly laudable and worthy of praise. Connecting an American food bank to residents of Jeddah or an American mother to an orphanage in India creates a spiritual bond that the world sorely needs, but thanks to MBS, it will soon become a reality. In fact, while American companies focus on making money from ChatGPT, the world should not be surprised when the kind-hearted Saudi Prince Mohammad unveils Charity-GPT.
The world is at an inflection point where war, climate change, poverty, and untethered technological breakthroughs devoid of humanity are creating opportunities for bad actors. America and its allies cannot address these challenges alone. Now is the time for the U.S. to announce a long-term partnership with Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the world’s only global change agent to lay the foundation for advancing human prosperity through global peace.
- S. Rob Sobhani, Ph.D. is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University
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