{"id":44913,"date":"2025-10-18T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=44913"},"modified":"2025-10-18T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:16:01","slug":"imf-%e6%80%bb%e8%a3%81%ef%bc%9a%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e6%88%96%e6%89%a9%e5%a4%a7%e5%8f%91%e5%b1%95%e5%b7%ae%e8%b7%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/44913.html","title":{"rendered":"IMF MANAGING DIRECTOR: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR WIDENING THE DEVELOPMENT GAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Xinhua, yesterday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/imf\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" >IMF<\/a>The President, Kristalina Georgieva, said at the 2025 World Bank and IMF annual meeting in Washington, D.C<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [artificial intelligence]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>(AI) IS BRINGING \"UNBELIEVABLY OPTIMISTIC\" AND IS EXPECTED TO CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH FROM 0.11 TP3T TO 0.81 TP3T\u3002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44914\" title=\"78b0ed8cj00t4boh00kxd000sg00izm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/78b0ed8cj00t4bohh00kxd000sg00izm.jpg\" alt=\"78b0ed8cj00t4boh00kxd000sg00izm\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The blogger says:<strong>AI DOES PROMISE TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY, BUT IT CAN ALSO BECOME A NEW SOURCE OF WIDENING DISPARITIES WITHIN AND BETWEEN COUNTRIES<\/strong>I DON'T KNOW. THE LATEST PUBLICATION OF THE IMF WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK PROVIDES A MODEST UPWARD ADJUSTMENT TO THE PROJECTED GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2025 TO 3.2%, BUT IS EXPECTED TO FALL BACK TO 3.1% IN 2026\u3002<\/p>\n<p>She stressed that the IMF had established the \"AI preparedness index\" to assess countries from the four dimensions of digital infrastructure, labour skills, innovation capacity and penetration. The results show that different countries have \"a huge distribution of the leading to the backward\" in the use of AI\u3002<\/p>\n<p>GEORGIEVA CAUTIONED THAT, WITHOUT ADEQUATE PREPARATION, AI, WHILE LEADING TO PRODUCTIVITY GAINS, COULD EXACERBATE GLOBAL IMBALANCES\u3002<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty will persist and change will not stop, but change will also mean opportunity\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18th, Xinhua reported that yesterday, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, at the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting in 2025 in Washington, stated that artificial intelligence (AI) was generating \u201cunbelievable optimism\u201d and was expected to contribute to global economic growth from 0.1% to 0.8%. Georgieva noted that AI did promise to increase productivity, but could also become a new source of widening disparities within and between countries. The latest publication of the IMF World Economic Outlook has slightly revised global economic growth projections to 3.2% in 2025, but is expected to fall back to 3 in 2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3140,204],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-44913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-imf","tag-204"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44913"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=44913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}