“Alarming” slowing down human development – can he give answers?

For several decades, human development indicators have shown a stable, curve upward and UN researchers predicted that until 2030. enjoy a high level of development of the global population.

And hopes were interrupted in recent years after the period of exceptional crises such as COVID 19 Pandemic – and progress stopped in all regions of the world.

‘Very real threat’ for progress

Human Development Report, Annual Publication from the UN Development Program (UNDP), it shows that the inequalities between rich and poor countries have expanded the fourth year in a row.

Global pressures, such as increasing trading tensions and deterioration of debt crises that restrict the government’s ability to invest in public services, narrow traditional paths to development.

“This slowdown signals a very actual threat to global progress,” Achim Steiner said, UNDP administrator. “If the pronouncement of progress is 2024. years” New Normal “, to make a fine 2030. It could slide for a decade – making our world less secure, divided and more vulnerable to economic and ecological shocks.”

Maybe robots after all don’t come to work

Despite the gloom indicators, the report is strikingly optical of artificial intelligence, noting the Loncreck pump on which the free or low cost tools embraced companies and individuals alike.

UNDP researchers performed a survey for measuring opinions on AI and revealed that about 60 percent of respondents expect technology to have a positive effect on their work and create new opportunities.

Those who live in low and medium levels of development were particularly desired: 70 percent expect to increase their productivity, and two thirds predict using AI in education, health or work in the coming years.

Action stations

Report authors include the recommendations to ensure that AI is as beneficial, including the modernization of educational and health systems to adequate needs – the construction of human cooperation with AI (not a competitor) in the heart of the development, from design to implementation.

“The elections we provide in the coming years will define the legacy of this technological transition for human development,” said Pedro Conceição, director of the UNDP Human Development Development Office.

“With true policies and focusing on people, and can be a crucial bridge for new knowledge, skills and ideas that can empower all of farmers in small business owners.”

Ultimately, the report message is that the impact is also difficult to predict. Instead of being an autonomous force, it is a reflection and amplifier value and inequality of society that shape it.

To avoid what it calls “disappointment”, UNDP calls stronger global cooperation on the management of AI, alignment between private innovations and public goals and sustainability for human dignity, capital and sustainability.

“2025 HDR is not a technology report,” Mr. Steiner writes in the preface. “It’s a report on people – and our ability to invent ourselves into the face of profound change.”