New generative-AI technologies hold immense potential for boosting productivity and improving the delivery of public services, but the sheer speed and scale of the transformation also raise concerns about job losses and greater inequality. Given uncertainty over the future of AI, governments should take an agile approach that prepares them
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Deepening democracy in an AI-enabled world
In 2002, the Human Development Report (UNDP) focused on ‘Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World’. It was an important discourse then [and still is] that evoked lot of insightful cross-regional exchanges of ideas. It reiterates that politics matter for human development because people everywhere want to be free to determine
UN should take the challenge to make AI work for the good of humanity
Importance of incorporating 4IR skills into the curriculum
Bangladesh is home to 169.4 million people and is considered to be the eighth most populous country in the world. Bangladesh is considered to be a developing nation and it highly aspires to be an upper middle-income country by the year 2031. With the emergence of the 4IR (Fourth Industrial Revolution)
China’s AI and Western anxiety
China’s tech advances may well end up ending the conventional Western notions of “freedom and democracy” in the world. Leading Western tech leaders are concerned that the emergence of an AI-powered bloc led by China could completely dominate this century’s geopolitics. US opinion makers and leaders may know that no