IMF and OECD Warn That AI Could Widen the Divide Between Countries
The International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have warned that artificial intelligence could widen the divide between richer and poorer countries.
The warning points to a central challenge in AI adoption: countries with greater access to the technology and the resources needed to use it may gain advantages that are less accessible to others. Without broader access, the technology could reinforce existing economic disparities rather than reduce them.
The IMF and OECD’s comments have been reported by The Arab Weekly and Channel NewsAsia. The available reports do not provide specific policy recommendations or country-level details.