Ideas in Development

Ideas in Development
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Conversations on the forces shaping economic development.

  1. The development economics of AI: Lessons and questions

    1 DAY AGO

    The development economics of AI: Lessons and questions

    What actually changes when AI meets institutions, infrastructure, and the people inside them? Oliver Hanney and Deena Mousa recap the Ideas in Development series on AI, drawing on conversations with Raghuram Rajan, Umar Saif, Rose Mutiso, Josh Lerner, Anton Korinek, Bruno Caprettini, Niriksha Shetty, Claire Cullen and Utkarsh Saxena. They cover the key takeaways: why the binding constraint question matters more than the model question; what the data desert problem means for national AI strategies; why access and value capture are not the same thing; and what AI is doing to the growth escalators lower-income countries depend on. And conclude with the most important questions this series did not resolve.

    27 min
  2. What tech ministers get wrong about AI

    17 MAR

    What tech ministers get wrong about AI

    What should a technology minister in a developing country actually focus on when it comes to AI? Umar Saif, computer scientist, former minister of Science and Technology, and IT, in Pakistan, and AI company founder, joins the Ideas in Development series on AI to discuss why data and politics, not technology, are the real bottlenecks to AI in developing countries. In this wide-ranging episode we discuss what he learned from his time in government, why the rush towards sovereign AI capacity may be a costly distraction, his worries for the future, and where he is optimistic. Read the full show notes on our Substack: https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/

    52 min
  3. India, AI, and the future of service-led growth

    10 MAR

    India, AI, and the future of service-led growth

    What happens to a growth model built on services when AI can do some of those services itself? Raghuram Rajan joins the Ideas in Development series on AI to discuss how India's economy grew through services exports, why that model may be more resilient to AI than critics assume, and what policymakers need to get right on human capital, universities, and digital access to stay ahead.

    46 min
  4. How does technology diffuse?

    3 MAR

    How does technology diffuse?

    Why is there a gap between innovation and impact? Josh Lerner joins the Ideas in Development series on AI to discuss how technology diffuses around the world, touching on the role of venture capital, universities and China. We then cover what this means for the diffusion of AI, and what can be done to speed up diffusion to developing countries.

    40 min
  5. Three ways India is using AI for development

    24 FEB

    Three ways India is using AI for development

    India is already using AI to unlock its courts, classrooms and farms. In this episode of Ideas in Development, Utkarsh Saxena, Claire Cullen and Niriksha Shetty discuss how their organisations, Adalat AI, Youth Impact, and Precision Development, are deploying AI across India, and what they’ve learned during the process.

    42 min
  6. How to think like an economist about AI

    17 FEB

    How to think like an economist about AI

    How do economists think about the economic impacts of AI today? Will our current economic paradigm still make sense if we reach AGI? In this episode of Ideas in Development, Anton Korinek joins Oliver Hanney and Deena Mousa to discuss some rules of thumb that help to cut through the headlines, and speculate what the labour market impacts of AI might be if technological progress continues to rapidly improve.

    42 min
  7. Can AI take off in Africa?

    10 FEB

    Can AI take off in Africa?

    In this episode of Ideas in Development, we ask what needs to happen before AI can take off in Africa. Rose Mutiso talks us through the current state of energy and digital infrastructure in Africa, why leapfrogging is not guaranteed with AI, and what fundamental bottlenecks need to be addressed.

    29 min
  8. Is the industrial revolution a good comparison for AI?

    5 FEB

    Is the industrial revolution a good comparison for AI?

    How did society change during the industrial revolution? Are there lessons we can learn for the age of AI? In this episode of Ideas in Development, Deena Mousa and Oliver Hanney talk to Bruno Caprettini about one of the most common historical analogies people make when talking about AI: the industrial revolution. We discuss how British society, and the economy, changed in real time during this historical period of unprecedented technological change. What did technological change actually look like when it first unfolded? How long did it take for living standards to rise? And what kinds of disruption and backlash showed up along the way? We also discuss the ways in which AI is similar, and different, to this period of history.

    39 min
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