We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
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—Alan Turing
The World Bank’s first comprehensive assessment of AI’s implications for developing economies argues that frontier models are the hardest and costliest path. Poorer countries, it says, should adapt existing low-cost tools to local languages and conditions.
More than 20 technology companies, among them Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir, have jointly urged Congress to promote open-weight AI models, arguing that concentrating advanced capability behind a handful of closed systems weakens competition and creates single points of failure.
In a Senate address on 23 July, Bernie Sanders compared artificial intelligence to the extinction-level comet in Don’t Look Up, warning that elected representatives are not paying attention and that the consequences for workers could be catastrophic.
