The cost of reaching AI
SMS charges are keeping AI out of reach for hundreds of millions of people without smartphones.
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AI for everyone else
Much of humanity lives in low- and middle-income countries. Our goal is to ensure the intelligence revolution benefits them.
From the research
Could AI leapfrog the web?
Asking AI can be 98% cheaper than loading a web page for teachers in Sierra Leone, because it is so much more bandwidth efficient.
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We need economic modeling and real-time measurement to assess whether AI will broaden growth in low-income countries, or leave them behind.
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Measurement
How do the world’s poor use AI?
What are the bottlenecks to benefitting from AI?
How might AI transform economies?
Institutions
What social innovation is needed for a world of machine intelligence?
Applications
How can AI improve services in low-income countries?