AI Could Transform the Developing World Within Just Ten Years
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World Bank Says AI Could Give Poorer Countries a Century of Progress in a Decade Artificial intelligence could allow developing countries to achieve within ten years advances that might otherwise take a century, according to one of the World Bank’s most ambitious assessments of the technology yet. The claim is not a precise economic forecast, but it captures an extraordinary possibility. AI could distribute scarce knowledge faster than poorer countries can train enough doctors, teachers, engineers, administrators and agricultural specialists through conventional systems. That could turn the developing world from a presumed casualty of the AI revolution into one of its greatest potential beneficiaries. Yet the same technology could also deepen dependency, strengthen authoritarian surveillance and leave countries paying foreign companies for systems they cannot inspect, control or easily replace.
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