Asia's AI Divide: The Continent Poised for a Two-Way Split
Source: Thailand Business News
Published on: 2026-04-15 03:54
Asia has long sold the world a compelling story, the story of convergence. Decades of export-led growth, technology transfer, and regional integration seemed to confirm that poorer economies could catch up with richer ones if they played their cards right. The Asian Development Bank's latest assessment of artificial intelligence preparedness suggests that the story is about to be rewritten. And not in a hopeful direction. The ADB's findings are stark. Generative AI is poised to deliver enormous productivity gains across the Asia-Pacific region, but those gains will flow overwhelmingly to the economies that are already the most advanced. The gap between winners and laggards is not narrowing. It is being locked in. The numbers tell a blunt story. Advanced economies, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, cluster near the global frontier on the ADB's AI Prepared...
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