January 21, 2025 3:28 PM

AI can add $4.4 trillion to global economy, but digital divide must be removed: WEF report

While Artificial Intelligence (AI ) could add $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually, there is also a need to pay attention to the careers, lives and communities it will disrupt -- including those who have already been left out of the global digital economy, according to a presentation at the WEF annual meeting on Tuesday. “At a minimum, we must eliminate the existing digital divide. Despite the rapid proliferation of the Internet across the globe, over 2.5 billion peop...