Left behind in the AI race

Urgent priorities in developing countries override significant investment in digital transformation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more than just a buzzword nowadays. It powers facial recognition in smartphones and computers, translation between foreign languages , systems which filter spam emails and identify toxic content on social media , and can even detect cancerous tumours . These examples, along with countless other existing and emerging applications of AI, help make people’s daily lives easier, especially in the developed world.