AI acceleration and hidden fault lines in the digital ecosystem.
Mehrad Bazarpash:
🔹The world is entering a fast AI era. Along with the expansion of computing infrastructures, this era widened two structural gaps: the gap between large organizations and small and medium-sized businesses in the adoption of artificial intelligence, and the digital gap between young generations and adults. Energy constraints on data centers and geopolitical challenges around communications infrastructure further complicate this transformation.
Corporate digital divide.
🔹Studies indicate that 52.1% of large companies use artificial intelligence, while this figure stands at only 20.3% in all businesses. By 2030, AI adoption is expected to exceed 81% among large companies, but the overall average across all businesses is expected to remain around 44%. In addition, only 12.2% of companies have successfully combined cloud computing, big data analysis and artificial intelligence at the same time - a trend that increases the risk of productivity concentration and deepening economic inequality.
Generational digital divide.
🔹While 68.3% of young people aged 16-24 use artificial intelligence, this rate drops to only 14.2% among people aged 55-74. Studies also show that moderate use of video games can improve academic performance, but exceeding three hours a day correlates with decreased academic results and increased social and cyber risks. Among adults, cognitive barriers, perceived irrelevance and fears of technological implications further exacerbate the digital divide.
Policy recommendations and conclusions 🔹Smart governance of this transformation requires treating the computing infrastructure as a national strategic asset, developing green data centers, empowering small businesses, facilitating access to technology and promoting digital literacy. In addition, safeguarding children, designing secure platforms and ensuring adults maintain access to both physical and digital services must be prioritized.
🔹Digital transformation will lead to prosperity and sustainable productivity only when technological innovation is paired with social inclusion, just distribution and maintaining human cognitive health.
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