Tuesday, August 4, 2026

AI and the Developing World

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.

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.


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. 

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