GDI Digest: Forget the hype – how is AI really changing the world?
by Louisa Hann If today’s Silicon Valley billionaires are to be believed, AI is about to supercharge your quality of life, boost your productivity, and provide access to “wildly abundant” intelligence. As Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI puts it, the future “can be vastly...
Call for Workshop Contributions: Resilient Amazon Futures: Strengthening Food, Water, Forest, and Land Governance for Sustainable Development
Workshop Title: Resilient Amazon Futures: Strengthening Food, Water, Forest, and Land Governance for Sustainable Development UK Principal Instructor: José A. Puppim de Oliveira, University of Manchester Brazil Principal Instructor: Claudio Szlafsztein, Federal...
Looking for the AI in inclusive AI
by Anuradha Ganapathy, PhD Researcher at the Global Development Institute Can you write about AI without ever once referring to it? These were my first thoughts when I came back from the field, learning from and with communities in rural India who were experimenting...