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Oct 1, 2026
JessicaHOST
Exactly, all that daily operational friction.
AlexHOST
And on a macroeconomic scale, the UN University and the World Bank are hosting a massive symposium in Tokyo centered on the twenty twenty-six World Development Report.
JessicaHOST
Right, and the entire focus of that gathering is mapping out how AI can elevate the Global South without triggering catastrophic labor displacement when these agents start taking over entry-level cognitive work.
AlexHOST
So bringing this all back to you listening, what does this all mean for you? Whether you're running a small business, working in a large enterprise team, or just trying to navigate a digital society that's suddenly flooded with deepfakes and autonomous software.
David EvansHOST
This is a fabulous point.
David EvansHOST
As one of the coauthors of the World Development Report 2018, which was one of the sources popularizing the learning crisis term, a lot of the thinking there was if we use this term learning crisis, we can get an attention to this topic.
David EvansHOST
Hopefully, we can draw resources to this topic that weren't there before.
David EvansHOST
But I think both of you highlight this fact that there can be Real potential damaging side effects, even if that framing does achieve some of what it's intended to.