From AI Boom to Economic Bust
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ai-revolution-could-leave-everyone-worse-off-by-ian-goldin-2026-10
Contrary to tech optimists' rosy predictions, AI may prove to be a drag on growth. By concentrating wealth and economic opportunities in a few cities while destroying the low-cost jobs that have historically fueled global development, the technology could end up making much of the world poorer and more divided.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ai-revolution-could-leave-everyone-worse-off-by-ian-goldin-2026-10
Contrary to tech optimists' rosy predictions, AI may prove to be a drag on growth. By concentrating wealth and economic opportunities in a few cities while destroying the low-cost jobs that have historically fueled global development, the technology could end up making much of the world poorer and more divided.
The Philippines’ big offshoring industry is growing despite AI
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/06/the-philippines-big-offshoring-industry-is-growing-despite-ai
How long will that last?
India’s IT sector is surviving artificial intelligence
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/06/indias-it-sector-is-surviving-artificial-intelligence
Though the technology is making life still harder for many graduates.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/06/the-philippines-big-offshoring-industry-is-growing-despite-ai
How long will that last?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/06/indias-it-sector-is-surviving-artificial-intelligence
Though the technology is making life still harder for many graduates.
Where A.I. Is Creating Jobs for Humans, for a While
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/world/asia/ai-jobs-data-annotation-india-karur.html
In the fast-growing field of data annotation, people in a small town in south India are training A.I. to better perform human labor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/world/asia/ai-jobs-data-annotation-india-karur.html
In the fast-growing field of data annotation, people in a small town in south India are training A.I. to better perform human labor.
Developing countries have ‘less to fear’ from AI than rich nations
https://www.ft.com/content/33c20c4e-6a25-42da-9f1e-6664c8388957
“As a rule, developing economies today have more to gain — and less to fear — from AI than richer ones ... less than a tenth of their jobs are susceptible to AI automation, compared with more than a third in high-income economies,” said Indermit Gill, the bank’s chief economist.
https://www.ft.com/content/33c20c4e-6a25-42da-9f1e-6664c8388957
“As a rule, developing economies today have more to gain — and less to fear — from AI than richer ones ... less than a tenth of their jobs are susceptible to AI automation, compared with more than a third in high-income economies,” said Indermit Gill, the bank’s chief economist.
World Development Report 2026: THE PROMISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE