AI technology, if it is deployed equitably worldwide, can bring immense benefits by resolving many of the existential threats facing humans and by helping us achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs ) to deliver a more sustainable, fairer and safer world for all.
At present 2.5 billion people in the developing world do not have access to internet or the benefits and services that this can provide . However, with emergence of distributed renewable energy systems and affordable satellite based internet, most will be connected in the next few years. This opens up enormous opportunities and new markets for AI entrepreneurs and busineseses to integrate AI into existing products and to develop new products and services to meet the needs of these previously underserved communities.
if the digital divide is to be closed, millions of AI entrepreneurs need to be trained and deployed to meet the needs of the developing world and to help its populations share in the benefits of our connected world and the the emerging additional benefits of the AI era
There are potential resources in the developing world but they are not currently being fiully utilised. For example there are over 30 million unemployed graduates over 200 million workers will be displaced because of AI or robotics and there are are 216 million registered businesses and may of these could be mobilised , trained and deployed to registered in rl
AI Academies can play a crucial role in helping to create an “army” of AI entreprenurs to help us deliver the SDGs
