Dispatch from Digital Planet: June 2025

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Dispatch from Digital Planet: June 2025

June 3, 2025

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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

Digital Evolution Index 2025

From the Covid Shock to AI Surge: How 125 Digital Economies Around the World Are Evolving and Changing

The latest edition of our flagship research on the state of digitalization across the world is now live. We analyzed 125 economies through four key drivers to gauge digital growth, momentum and innovation. The key findings in the edition include the deceleration of digital growth, the emergence of AI as a critical differentiator and persistent urban-rural and social divides. Explore each finding with data-rich visualizations for comparison, analysis and historical trends.

PERSPECTIVES

How Companies Can Mitigate the Harms of AI-Driven Inequality: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Harvard Business Review

AI isn't just changing work—it's creating a new class system. While trust in AI plummets despite better performance, Bhaskar Chakravorti reveals how 'artificial inequality' is dividing society across six critical fault lines and offers three concrete levers companies can pull to fight back.

10 New AI Challenges—and How to Meet Them: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Foreign Policy

While AI "doomers" have gone quiet, the technology hasn't gotten safer—and new challenges are emerging fast. Digital Planet's Bhaskar Chakravorti maps 10 critical AI risks from existential threats to widening inequality, plus actionable solutions we can implement now.

IN CONVERSATION

AI Insecurity and the Playbook for Businesses: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

In a candid conversation with Centre for Digital Transformation (CDT) Director Vijay Gurbaxani, Digital Planet Chair Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses AI's potential effects on social inequities and the steps that business leaders should take to mitigate them.

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IN THE NEWS

Global Index Reveals Keys to Resilient Digital Economies | innoreport

New Global Index Defines What Makes Digital Economies Resilient and Inclusive | Newswise

From the Editor-in-Chief | India Today

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