AI Race: When a senior Russian tech executive recently told a Moscow audience that artificial intelligence would create a new global “AI club†with power “comparable to nuclear weapons,â€.
AI and the End of Poverty: The world’s poorest people are already living with artificial intelligence — just not in the way most TED talks imagine.
When people in Silicon Valley talk about the future of university education in the age of AI, they usually imagine campuses with hologram lecturers.
In Washington and Brussels, the future of jobs in the age of artificial intelligence is often framed as a story about lawyers using chatbots.
If the 20th-century university was ruled by the book and the blackboard, the 21st is increasingly mediated by dashboards, platforms, and algorithms.
Walk into any university open house today and you’ll hear three buzzwords floating in the air: degrees, micro-credentials, and AI.
Neural Network: By 2050, the university campus may still have lecture halls, libraries, and coffee-fuelled students rushing between classes.
From Carbon and Cobalt to Code: Why the 21st Century Needs a New Deal Between the Global South and the World This article argues that Africa’s future—and that of the wider Global South—will be shaped at the intersection of three systems: climate change, sovereign debt, and the data-driven digital economy. Drawing on UNCTAD’s World of […]
This article examines the rise of “digital†and “data colonialism†and asks whether the emerging AI-driven digital economy is reproducing old colonial patterns in new forms.
Africa’s Green Leap: This article examines whether Africa can use the global energy transition to build a new, green industrial path instead of repeating the fossil-fuel development model of Europe, North America, and parts of Asia.