Look out below. Even wealthy, well-organized baseball players can't duck labour's falling share of income.Image: IMAGN IMAGESPlayers in baseball’s premier professional league are about as organized as labour gets. But they’re not immune to a global trend affecting many workers: a declining share of income.If even this AI-proof workforce with a st...
In the age of AI, disinformation efforts can target people, but also machines.Agentic AI and AI swarms can be used to spread false or misleading content, disrupting the global information ecosystem.Safeguarding against such autonomous influence efforts will require strengthening cognitive security and resilience for both people and machines.Technological a...
Governments are taking different approaches to AI use in schools, with implications for future workforces.Image: Getty Images/alvarezDifferent approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) raises questions about how to prepare people for an AI-driven future.It’s important for governments and business to consider how AI use might affect the skills and experie...
Real enterprise value relies on redesigning workflows rather than purchasing software licenses.Image: Kaleidico/UnsplashAI adoption has surged worldwide yet firm-wide labour productivity gains remain largely flat.Real enterprise value relies on redesigning workflows rather than purchasing software licenses.Long-term success demands stronger management capa...
Aug 21, 2026Energy infrastructure, power systems and AI are already becoming interdependent.Image: REUTERS/Adrees LatifThis article is part of:Centre for Energy and MaterialsAI is emerging as a new source of power-system resilience, enabling grids to detect disruption, respond and adapt in real time.AI is increasingly entering the operating core of power s...
Unlike traditional cloud platforms, neoclouds provide the processing power, low latency and bandwidth requirements AI infrastructure needs.Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto/YanawutThis article is part of:Centre for AI ExcellenceNeoclouds are cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) platforms optimized for the power, latency and bandwidth requirements of mo...
AI is already transforming how boards govern.Image: Snowing/UnsplashArtificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how boards govern by changing how directors make decisions and what effective governance requires.Directors need to prepare as AI reshapes the data boards receive, decisions they oversee and decisions that the technology makes on their company&#...
Global Lighthouse Network manufacturers show why successful AI adoption starts with people.Image: Getty Images/iStockphotoThis article is part of:Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply ChainsThree in four industrial jobs are expected to evolve over the next decade, requiring workers to exercise greater judgement and oversee AI-enabled systems.Leading...
Asia-Pacific is the foundation of global industrial output – and how it operates is changing.Image: REUTERS/Thanh HueThis article is part of:Centre for Nature and ClimateIndustrial competitiveness increasingly depends on deploying coordinated low carbon industrial systems rather than isolated technologies.Demand creation, regional industrial ecosystems an...
The pathway for many young people from skills to sustainable opportunity remains incomplete.Image: Getty Images/iStockphotoThis article is part of:Centre for the New Economy and SocietyNo matter what training they do, young job-seekers can always be limited by the wider economic environment they interact with.Young people in fragile and conflict-affected s...
