https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/27/ai-use-cases-developing-world/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=YWktdXNlLWNhc2VzLWRldmVsb3Bpbmctd29ybGQ=&pid=PNIO3cqybsz3anw October 27, 2025 By Bhaskar Chakravorti Here’s the main point: Big AI seems poised for a crash. Close to $3 trillion will be spent on it by 2029 in pursuit of superintelligence: a pursuit of power without purpose. It’s time we shifted to Small AI: in pursuit of purpose and “good enough” power.There’s plenty of
Oct 29, 2025 On Global Lens, Bhaskar Chakravorti of Tufts University discusses the AI bubble, pressure on tech companies, rising spending on AI and more. He also believes many “hurricanes” are set to hit the U.S. economy, and he speaks about the economic slowdown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvVezOPLaco #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBubble #TechNews #AITrends #AIInvesting #FutureOfAI #AIImpact #TechAnalysis #Innovation
THE WORLD BANK GROUP October 2025. Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, Fletcher School, Tufts University explains how “small AI” differs from “big AI” and how it can serve as a bridge between innovation and local impact. Listen HERE to the interview.
Trump’s pharma tariffs won’t impact India for now, says expert US tariffs on patented drugs won’t hit Indian pharma immediately, says Bhaskar Chakravorti, but future risk to generics remains. He urged India to cut Russian oil imports as a signal to Washington. Read the article HERE. Published Date – 27 September 2025, 08:10 AM
Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti and scholar-entrepreneur-Fletcher alum Olaf Groth discuss Groth’s latest book “The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future.” How the turmoil of recent years gives leaders an unprecedented opportunity to redesign global strategies and systems and to remobilize toward a smarter, more resilient, and equitable future. How
Despite a roaring economy, India is in the middle of an employment crisis: In a country with the world’s largest and youngest workforce, there are very few good jobs to be had. To maintain its economic momentum through consistently high GDP growth, India needs to produce more jobs and move a greater proportion of its
American universities face protests amid broader societal tensions, notably over the Middle East crisis and upcoming U.S. elections, raising concerns about global stability.
The BRICS group exists in a symbiotic relationship with the Western-led global institutions while engaging in new economic initiatives. Yet it can only become a real alternative if it improves the conditions of the Global South.
Deloitte & Fletcher School’s study reveals strategies for enhancing investor trust in sustainability disclosures, highlighting the critical role of reliable data and the growing importance of sustainability in investment decisions.
In 2023, AI’s breakthrough led to Big Tech dominance. Regulators, aiming to protect, unintentionally fueled accelerationists’ power, raising consolidation risks.
AI power shifts globally impact prioritized applications, societal benefits, economic sectors, data for training algorithms, biases inclusion, and innovation versus safeguards balance. 25 nations compete for AI leadership.
In an exclusive interview with Business Insider Africa, Bhaskar Chakravorti, Shamina Singh, Jordan Fabyanske, and Robin Miller provided valuable insights into the complexities of the African job market and potential pathways to overcome its challenges.
AI Culture conference featured a thought-provoking debate between Bhaskar Chakravorti and Philippe Beaudoin, skillfully moderated by Marc Nicholson. Hosted by Quilt.AI, the event, led by CEO Anurag Banerjee and co-founder Angad Singh Chowdhry, explored the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence.
IDEA 2030 Council members Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi and David Porteous collaborated with Priya Vora and Peter Rabley on this timely piece about why Digital Public Infrastructure matters in emerging markets.
According to the latest Henley Passport Index, India has visa free access to 57 countries around the world. But what does this mean for the world’s most populous country and its access to foreign nations? How powerful is the Indian passport?
AI disrupts work, promising productivity but risking job loss and income inequality. Research may focus on wrong problems, missing chances to aid humanity.
Virtual symposium on climate & sustainable development in India with Amitabh Kant, William Bissell, & Rachel Kyte, moderated by Gaurav Dalmia & Bhaskar Chakravorti.
New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.
In America, India’s most famous ‘heir’ pulled back the curtain, seemed more accessible. His message of tolerance was welcome, but the Congress leader was short on specifics.
Discover how digital public infrastructure (DPI) is reshaping India’s economy & governance. Learn about 8 essential qualities for successful DPI projects & public-private coordination.
This week, Musk disbanded the Trust and Safety Council, made up of civil, human rights and other organizations to address hate speech, harassment, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform
Elon Musk reactivated Donald Trump’s Twitter account last weekend, reversing a ban imposed in January 2021 after his posts were deemed to have incited violence at the US Capitol.
Facebook may have changed its corporate name to Meta Platforms, but that won’t end its troubles—or efforts to rein in the social media company’s business practices. Lawmakers are pondering new ways to regulate Facebook, whose CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in 2019 that he welcomed new “rules governing the internet.” With that in mind, The Conversation asked three experts on social media, technology
Hello, and welcome to another edition of A Desi Woman Podcast. I am your host, Soniya Gokhale. Today, we are so honored and delighted to welcome Dr. Bhaskar Chakravorti to the show. Dr. Chakravorti is the dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, America’s oldest, exclusively graduate school of global affairs.
Congratulations are due to Congress and the Biden team for the passage of the landmark infrastructure bill. Now that we have that behind us, and the champagne flutes put away, it is time to probe where the execution might need additional help. After all, anything that makes it through a politically complex process is far from ideal
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, joins Emily Chang to discuss Facebook’s rebranding as Meta, and whether that will help its reputation and if the metaverse is a winning strategy for the social media giant.
Our Analysis Of 50 Global Cities By Ajay Bhalla and Bhaskar Chakravorti Fletcher School’s Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti and co-author Ajay Bhalla have written an article for CNN on the hot and blind spots for Artificial Intelligence (AI). The two write about how AI can improve productivity, food production, healthcare, and even the
This decade’s Indian national census will be the first to be carried out digitally, explains BBC Sounds Podcast host Gareth Mitchell. While the plan may simplify the collection of census data in the country, COVID-related delays have slowed its progress and there are growing concerns about its accuracy. Fletcher’s Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti
Excerpt from “As Facebook faces fire, U.S. laws protecting kids online languish behind Europe”, Bhaskar Chakravorti, MarketWatch Facebook Inc. faces another tongue-lashing on Thursday in the halls of the U.S. Congress, but little can be done until Congress updates U.S. law on kids and online services. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, was passed in 1998
In his latest article in The Indian Express, Fletcher Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti explains that the last thing India can afford is a bubble that bursts and for capital, talent, and technology to take flight and seek refuge elsewhere. Excerpt taken from “Indian tech unicorns are gaining at China’s expense. Is this a
Bhaskar Chakravorti writes: Nurtured by repressive governments and with exports to other governments aspiring to similar heights of repression, the global surveillance industry is booming.
Bhaskar Chakravorti is interviewed on Bloomberg Baystate Business about which parts of the United States are most vulnerable to misinformation regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.
Bhaskar Chakravorti is quoted in The Wall Street Journal about Big Tech’s talent recruitment advantages with the increase in “work from anywhere” policies.
Bhaskar Chakravorti shares key findings from new research from Digital Planet, which analyzes digital inequalities across the 50 U.S. states, in Harvard Business Review.
Bhaskar Chakravorti was interviewed on CNBC about new antitrust laws to rein in Big Tech power, including merger restrictions on the largest firms. He says that while venture capitalists are probably right that acquisition prices could slide under new merger restrictions, entrepreneurs will still have a drive to innovate. Excerpt from “Start-ups will suffer from
An article by Bob Zukis in Forbes discusses the prominence of the global digital economy, and argues that while it is a facet in today’s world it is not well defined, understood, or easily measurable. Zukis also argues that the digital economy is not evenly distributed around the world, and that there are digital “haves
New research from Digital Planet, a research center at The Fletcher School that studies the global impacts of emerging technologies and digitalization, finds that the percentage of LGBTQ+ women outnumber the percentage of LGBTQ+ men in technology companies across the United States. The report finds that the gap between LGBTQ+ women and men is even wider
Did the nations with better digital readiness experience greater economic resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic? According to Bhaskar Chakravorti, the positive associations between advanced digital evolution and economic stability are notable but not universal.
In his latest article in Foreign Policy, Fletcher Dean of Global Business Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses the spread of misinformation across social media platforms, which has increased as we draw closer to the 2020 presidential election. Read an excerpt from Dean Chakravorti’s article below and explore recent research from Digital Planet on the how vulnerable U.S.
Image Source On Tuesday, October 6, the House Judiciary subcommittee released a document outlining its findings and recommendations on how laws should be rethought for modern society, where digital technologies play an ever-increasing role in our daily lives. The report is the result of a sixteen-month-long investigation into the competitive practices at four of the
Image source. Josephine Wolff, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at Fletcher, addresses the lack of information and congressional oversight in regards to various threats directed at the 2020 election in Slate. Read an excerpt from Professor Wolff’s article below. Excerpt from Professor Josephine Wolff’s article in Slate. In August, with less than three months until
Excerpt taken from Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti’s article in Harvard Business Review For months now, the drumbeat for reining in Big Tech has been getting louder. Critics have suggested solutions from breaking up Facebook and Amazon to regulating social networks and search engines as public utilities. This summer, the heads of major tech firms were hauled before Congress, and the
Excerpt taken from Bhaskar Chakravorti’s article in The Indian Express The United States is at war with itself. With that start, I could take the next thousand words in many directions. I could write of the unmasked contempt that incumbent Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden had for each other through the most unpresidential of
Excerpt taken from Bhaskar Chakravorti’s article in The Hill I have worked for over 30 years in competitive strategy. I teach it to future business and policy leaders, diplomats, global development leaders and social entrepreneurs. I have been a leader of the competitive strategy practices in two influential global consulting firms, where I advised CEOs,
Professor Thomas Holt describes four reasons why abandoning globalization due to the COVID-19 pandemic will hurt the United States in his latest piece for Harvard Business Review. We are still in the midst — perhaps even the early days — of the coronavirus pandemic, but there have been many predictions of how it has permanently
In Slate, Fletcher Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Policy Josephine Wolff discusses Virginia’s release of the Covidwise app, an exposure notification API developed by Apple and Google to track when smartphones running Android or iOS came into close contact with one another without revealing unnecessary information about users’ locations or activities. Whether a significant number of
In his latest op-ed for The Indian Express, Fletcher Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti writes about eight digital realities of the Indian market. Congratulations on surviving the marathon grilling by US lawmakers. While a major complaint was about Google cosying up to China, I found it interesting that no one seemed bothered by the fact that you had just dropped $10
In his latest article for The Conversation, Dean Chakravorti discusses how advocates and opponents of breaking up big technology companies are falling prey to some serious myths and misconceptions.
Bhaskar Chakravorti sits down with ABC News Tampa Bay to discuss the findings from recent Digital Planet research on the spread of COVID-19 across the United States.
In his latest op-ed in Barron’s Magazine, Dean Chakravorti discusses the pros and cons of working from home and the possibility of its permanence. If working remotely becomes an irreversible reality, Dean Chakravorti believes employment opportunities may become more widely dispersed throughout the country and across the world. But while remote work offers employees greater
With so many other issues taking precedent in the United States, why has the Trump administration chosen to pick a fight with international college students? According to Bhaskar Chakravorti, it’s an attempt to attack what he considers the enemy within– liberalism.
Will our internet withstand the COVID-19 outbreak? Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Policy Josephine Wolff examines the issue in The New York Times.
Could Big Tech be the silver lining during the global Covid-19 pandemic? Bhaskar Chakravorti explains how big tech is putting humans first in The New York Times.
The CDC has identified coronavirus as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness that was first detected in Wuhan, China in January 2020. Early on, many patients in Wuhan reported to have eaten contaminated food prior to experiencing symptoms, which range in severity and typically include fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. The virus
Is digitalization the modern day space-race? IBGC’s Ravi Chaturvedi sits down with E-Estonia to answer this question about the global data economy, its challenges and its opportunities.
Elizabeth Warren’s policies on Big Tech could warrant foreign interference in the 2020 election. Bhaskar Chakravorti identifies which countries are most likely to interfere for Forbes.
Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti addresses the potential for change in Modi’s reelection and what his administration needs to pay attention to. Read his article in The Indian Express here.
Facebook’s ‘pivot’ is less about privacy and more about profits Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest promise is that his social media conglomerate will become a “privacy-focused” one. By turns lauded and lambasted, this move does not quite address users’ primary problems with the company. His move is the pragmatic shift of a CEO
Facebook’s Fake Pivot To Privacy Zuckerberg’s missive has mistakenly been likened to a radical shift in mission and to momentous tech pivots, such as IBM’s decision to stop selling personal computers. Zuckerberg’s plan is none of the above: it is a pragmatic move of an obsessive CEO and little to do with privacy; it is
Dean Bhaskar Chakravorti joined the “B2B Revealed” podcast to discuss the significance of the China and India’s digital economies. He discussed how these markets have developed, what tech companies should be aware of as they try to enter these regions, and what to be on the lookout for going forward. Check out the podcast below:
Impact investors can gain real feedback from their portfolio companies’ customers. Do they want it? Prof. Alnoor Ebrahim “The single most important feature of Lean Data is its focus on listening to customers in order to serve them better,” writes Alnoor Ebrahim, a professor Tufts’ Fletcher School. Acumen’s Lean Data methodology is no silver bullet, he says,
Tech Companies Embrace Some GDPR Privacy Practices Outside of Europe by Dawn Kawamoto “Support for regulation varies widely from country to country — and of course, within countries. Public opinion in some EU member states shows support for stringent rules, but that support is not always shared in other countries,” [Bhaskar Chakravorti] said. Read the
Facebook’s Privacy Changes Leave Developers Steaming by Sheera Frenkel Bhaskar Chakravorti, senior associate dean at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, said Facebook had to walk a fine line. “They have taken a blunt instrument approach, which is the right thing to do from a public relations standpoint,” he said. “But now they need to
raceAhead: Unilever Threatens to Pull Ads from Facebook by Ellen McGirt How Facebook and others will respond will be instructive. Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean, International Business & Finance, Tufts University, and digital trust expert says the issue is basic business. “Our research finds that companies working toward corporate social responsibility will only succeed if
Trump Envoy Erik Prince Met with CEO of Russian Direct Investment Fund in Seychelles by Erin Banco “Why would you separate the management company?” asked Patrick Schena, an expert on sovereign wealth funds who teaches at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. “One of the reasons is to give the appearance of a degree of separation
Digital Solutions Can Help Even the Poorest Nations Prosper Fast economic growth is the best way to reduce poverty. A recent Tufts University study found that digitization is one of the biggest drivers of a nation’s economic success. The report argues that that economic growth is mostly achieved by careful policy-setting—in other words, it’s best driven by
Will the US Get Left in the Digital Dust? “We identified many hot spots around the world where these changes are happening rapidly and other spots where momentum has slowed,” the authors of the Digital Evolution Index said. “Two years on, depending on where we live, we continue to move at different speeds toward the
