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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.

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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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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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Will AI change the path to prosperity?

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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Research Areas

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?

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