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Microsoft Vice Chair & President
AI, perhaps more than any other technology this century, will play a decisive role in either closing this economic divide or exacerbating it. [...] If AI is deployed broadly and used well by a young and growing population, it offers a real prospect for catch-up economic growth for the Global South. It might even provide the biggest such opportunity of the 21st century. AI Verified source (2026)
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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

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AI Verified Verified via web search (Microsoft blog returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch). Multiple sources (Microsoft On the Issues, Business Standard, AINews) confirm Brad Smith (Microsoft Vice Chair & President) wrote/said on 2026-02-17 that "If AI is deployed broadly and used well by a young and growing population, it offers a real prospect for catch-up economic growth for the Global South" and "might even provide the biggest such opportunity of the 21st century," along with the framing that AI will play a decisive role in either closing or exacerbating the economic divide. Author attribution and year (2026) are correct, and source_url is the primary source. The "for" vote on "economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns with his stated push to bridge the global AI divide and bring AI's benefits to the Global South. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 15d ago
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