"The report argues that AI, like the Industrial Revolution before it, has the potential to unlock unprecedented opportunities or deepen existing divides, across a global landscape marked by vast gaps in wealth, skills, and digital access. Even wealthier countries would suffer if poorer states were left behind by the AI revolution, said Schellekens. If inequality continues to rise, the spillover effects of that in terms of the security agenda, in terms of undocumented forms of migration, will also become more daunting, he worries."
"The region, home to more than 55 percent of the world's population, sits at the centre of the technological shift, the report said, accounting for more than half of global AI users. The technology, it said, is already bringing benefits such as improving tutoring in remote schools, speeding up disease detection, expanding credit access for small businesses, and strengthening disaster response."
Artificial intelligence risks increasing inequality between developed and developing countries, potentially reversing decades of global convergence. Wealthier states stand to profit while poorer states may be left behind, deepening gaps in wealth, skills, and digital access. Rising inequality could produce security challenges and undocumented migration pressures that affect all countries. The Asia-Pacific region, containing over 55 percent of the world’s population and more than half of global AI users, sits at the center of this technological shift. AI already delivers benefits such as remote tutoring, faster disease detection, expanded small-business credit, and improved disaster response. Urgent, coordinated policy action is required to manage these impacts.
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