"The Ai Revolution Will Benefit Poor Countries if It Is Accessible Otherwise than via the Internet"

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CHRONIQUE. In developing countries, companies are reinventing the AI, explains Julien Bouissou in his column.

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If there is a place on Earth where artificial intelligence (AI) can really be useful, it is in poor countries where the shortages of teachers and doctors hinder development. Some experiments are promising. A World Bank study published in early 2025 shows, for example, that in Nigeria, the employment, by teachers, of conversational agents had allowed to raise the level of students in English of the equivalent of two years of learning, in just six…