by GDI | Jul 2, 2026 | Comment
By Kelechi Ekuma Artificial intelligence is transforming development practice, university education and graduate work. Development studies must respond not by chasing technological novelty, but by strengthening its distinctive capacity to interrogate power,...
by GDI | Mar 5, 2026 | Comment
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...
by GDI | Feb 12, 2026 | Comment
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...
by GDI | Sep 4, 2025 | Comment
The past few years have brought a great deal of social, political, and economic turbulence across much of the world. From intensifying climate breakdown to growing geopolitical uncertainty, GDI academics have been working hard to conceptualise future threats and...