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@eicker@lemmy.world

2026-10-16 03:56 UTC

What the West can learn from AI optimists in the rest of the world: The developing world’s enthusiastic adoption of AI and necessity-driven innovations offer lessons for an anxiety-ridden West.

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  • @eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-16 03:57

    The most interesting divide isn’t optimism versus fear. It’s people using AI to solve problems versus corporations using problems to justify AI. One side builds translation tools and accessible services; the other adds a chatbot to your fridge and calls it a revolution. Maybe skepticism is just pattern recognition.

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  • Professor and chair in Inclusive AI cultures at Utrecht University and founder of the Inclusive AI lab AI queen promotes AI slop. tl;dr: Rest of the world embraces AI slop. West is being stupid.

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