The news that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying up thousands of Nvidia chips as the join the global AI arms race is the splash in the Financial Times, with the paper reporting that there are fears the autocratic regimes in the countries could misuse artificial intelligence.

The paper writes that the countries are “choking” the supply of the chips, crucial for building artificial intelligence, and that their aim is to be leaders in the field and to “turbocharge” their respective economies.