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“Small AI, Big Jobs”: The World Bank Opens Bangkok Betting That Cheap, Offline AI Can Help Employ Africa’s Young — Where 600 Million People Still Lack Power

The bank’s first flagship event of the Annual Meetings, on Oct. 12, carries Ajay Banga’s argument that AI built for farmers and clinics, not giant data centers, can help create work for the 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in emerging markets over 15 years, most of them in Africa. Its own research says poorer countries face far less AI job risk than rich ones, but warns the gap could widen.