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Getting Real About AI for the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid:
Improving the Economic Outcomes of Smallholder Farmers in Africa
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Agriculture, a linchpin of Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) economy, confronts formidable challenges, including low productivity and yield exacerbated by evolving climate dynamics. In a study sponsored by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, we examined the potential of AI-enabled crop protection solutions to deliver dividends at scale to smallholder farmers and the region’s economies. The study explores Crop Protection AI (Crop AI), a strategic and readily adoptable solution tailored to the region’s agricultural landscape.
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AI’s Trust Problem: Bhaskar Chakravorti
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Harvard Business Review
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As AI becomes more powerful, it faces a major trust problem. Consider 12 leading concerns: disinformation, safety and security, the black box problem, ethical concerns, bias, instability, hallucinations in LLMs, unknown unknowns, potential job losses and social inequalities, environmental impact, industry concentration, and state overreach. Each of these issues is complex — and not easy to solve. But there is one consistent approach to addressing the trust gap: training, empowering, and including humans to manage AI tools.
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Francisco Salazar
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I'VE BEEN WORKING ON
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Developing a Digital Economy measurement method to compare countries’ environmental impact from digital activities, alongside a report on STEM talent diversity.
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AN INSIGHT I DISCOVERED
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The projects I work on require cross-sector collaboration, pooling insights and expertise to solve complex problems.
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I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT
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Finding the best way to communicate. It may require an initial time investment, but it pays off by avoiding misunderstandings.
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