Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the world must not let the digital divide “become an AI divide.” He said expanding access to compute infrastructure, connectivity, and training is essential as AI reshapes economies.
Pichai said AI represents “the biggest platform shift of our lifetimes” and could drive “hyper progress” across science, healthcare, and economic development. But its benefits are neither “guaranteed nor automatic.”
“We must be equally bold in tackling problems in regions that have lacked access to technology,” Pichai said. “We cannot allow the digital divide to become an AI divide. That means investing in compute infrastructure and connectivity.”
Governments must act both as regulators and innovators to ensure AI improves public services and broadens opportunity, he added.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that while AI capabilities are advancing rapidly, there’s a gap between those capabilities and real-world impact.
“There is this duality between the fundamental capabilities of the technology and the time that it takes for those capabilities to diffuse into the world,” he said.
“There are just frictions to adopt things through enterprises, and I think even more so in the developing world,” he added.
Add a Comment