In Abu Dhabi, crews are pouring concrete for a five-gigawatt AI campus, the largest outside the United States. Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN is racing to build gigawatts of compute and has launched SAMAI to train a million citizens in AI use; the kingdom ranks first in the world for government AI ambition on the Tortoise Global AI Index. QIA-backed QAI and Brookfield have launched a $20bn AI infrastructure venture, while the UAE’s MGX is investing across the AI stack. By 2025, 84% of organisations across the GCC reported using AI in at least one business function, up from 64 percent two years earlier. Fears that tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Midjourney would lead to job losses have failed to materialise to the extent feared, yet productivity gains have also failed to materialise. The article raises concerns about AI’s impact on humanity, the soul, and cognitive offloading, where thinking is offloaded to machines. It uses a metaphor of the jewel wasp, which stings a cockroach’s brain to remove its drive to move and flee, leaving it content but effectively a zombie.