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Navigating the Revolution: Policy Recommendations for Inclusive AI

  • January 21, 2025
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Artificial intelligence is an unstoppable force that is reshaping local communities, national economies, labour markets, and international relations. Whatever the potential of the technology, however, its development is accompanied by concerns about AI’s disruptive social and economic impacts. There is no guarantee that the benefits of AI will be evenly shared – or that the social and economic costs will be evenly distributed. On its current trajectory, the benefits could be concentrated among certain countries, sectors, companies, and workers, while others risk missing out on the benefits and suffering disproportionately from the disruptive costs.

CERRE’s Navigating the Revolution: Policy Recommendations for Inclusive AI issue paper examines the literature on how AI could impact labour markets and global inequality. The issue paper explains that, given how rapid and profound its impacts could be, decisions about how AI is developed, what uses it is put to, and how we cultivate the human capacity to develop and use it, must be made not only by the private sector but also by government. Policymakers need to understand how AI could affect labour markets, economies and societies and be ready to quickly adopt strategies to steer the technology’s direction towards uses that promote inclusion and benefit groups who have previously missed out on the benefits of technological change, minimising any unavoidable disruptive impacts on these groups.

The issue paper’s authors, Sabina Dewan, Praavita Kashyap and Zach Meyers propose ten recommendations to help ensure the inclusive development, deployment and governance of AI. To manage the consequences of AI for skills and employment, they recommend that:

  • Create a research hub as an “early warning system” about AI’s impacts on workers;
  • Incentives for firms to invest in augmenting human labour – not just replacing it;
  • Require firms to listen to communities and workers when deciding how to deploy AI;
  • Support affected industries, workers, and communities through public and private initiatives;
  • Boost digital skills in public education and training in developing countries.

Other recommendations are aimed at ensuring AI fitness for the developing world and inclusive governance of AI:

  • Developing countries need “AI Strategies” to boost investment and entrepreneurship;
  • Strengthen AI enablers in poorer areas and developing countries;
  • Competition regulators must collaborate to combat market concentration;
  • Coordinate public investments and resources in developing countries;
  • Form coalitions to amplify developing countries’ voices in global AI governance.
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Sabina Dewan
Sabina Dewan
Founder & Executive Director
JustJobs Network

Sabina Dewan is the founder and Executive Director of the JustJobs Network – a global institution that produces cutting-edge, actionable research on good job creation and workforce development. Under Ms. Dewan’s leadership, the JustJobs Network has grown to exert significant influence on the global discourse on employment and the governance of labour markets.

Ms. Dewan has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Before this, she served as a Senior Fellow and Director for International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC. Ms. Dewan’s research examines how major forces from technology to climate change are upending traditional employment models. Within technology, Ms. Dewan’s work focusses on the impact of the platform economy, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence on employment. She draws on field-based research and partnerships to connect findings from the ground to policy at national and international levels. She works closely with governments, businesses, multilateral, and grassroots organizations providing critical labour market insights to help generate more employment, cultivate employability, and promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

Ms. Dewan’s wide experience includes working with institutions including the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, and the European Commission, as well as grassroots organizations in Sierra Leone, India and Western Samoa. She serves on several global and local committees. She is one of six advisor’s to the Swedish Prime Minister’s Global Deal initiative. She serves as a member of the Global Challenges Foundation’s Climate Governance Commission. She is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s National Committee on Skills and Livelihoods; Niti Aayog’s advisory committee for ‘Vision 2035’, and is part of the advisory group for Work Fair and Free Foundation. She played a key role in integration of vocational education in India’s National Education Policy 2020 and National Curriculum Framework 2023.

Ms. Dewan appears regularly in several international media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, US News and World Report, Mint, Hindu Business Line, CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, TimesNow and NDTV.

Sabina Dewan is the founder and Executive Director of the JustJobs Network – a global institution that produces cutting-edge, actionable research on good job creation and workforce development. Under Ms. Dewan’s leadership, the JustJobs Network has grown to exert significant influence on the global discourse on employment and the governance of labour markets.

Ms. Dewan has been a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Before this, she served as a Senior Fellow and Director for International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington DC. Ms. Dewan’s research examines how major forces from technology to climate change are upending traditional employment models. Within technology, Ms. Dewan’s work focusses on the impact of the platform economy, e-commerce, and artificial intelligence on employment. She draws on field-based research and partnerships to connect findings from the ground to policy at national and international levels. She works closely with governments, businesses, multilateral, and grassroots organizations providing critical labour market insights to help generate more employment, cultivate employability, and promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

Ms. Dewan’s wide experience includes working with institutions including the World Bank, the International Labour Organization, and the European Commission, as well as grassroots organizations in Sierra Leone, India and Western Samoa. She serves on several global and local committees. She is one of six advisor’s to the Swedish Prime Minister’s Global Deal initiative. She serves as a member of the Global Challenges Foundation’s Climate Governance Commission. She is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s National Committee on Skills and Livelihoods; Niti Aayog’s advisory committee for ‘Vision 2035’, and is part of the advisory group for Work Fair and Free Foundation. She played a key role in integration of vocational education in India’s National Education Policy 2020 and National Curriculum Framework 2023.

Ms. Dewan appears regularly in several international media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, US News and World Report, Mint, Hindu Business Line, CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, TimesNow and NDTV.

Praavita
Praavita Kashyap
Research analyst
JustJobs Network
Zach Meyers (1)
Zach Meyers
Director of Research

As the CERRE Director of Research, Zach Meyers has a wide remit, including managing our cross-sectoral programmes and projects.

Previously the assistant director of the Centre on European Reform, Zach Meyers has a recognised expertise in economic regulation and network industries such as telecoms, energy, payments, financial services and airports. In addition to advising in the private sector, with more than ten years’ experience as a competition and regulatory lawyer, he has consulted to several governments, regulators and multilateral institutions on competition reforms in regulated sectors. He is also a regular contributor to media.

Zach holds a BA, LLB and a Master of Public & International Law from the University of Melbourne.

As the CERRE Director of Research, Zach Meyers has a wide remit, including managing our cross-sectoral programmes and projects.

Previously the assistant director of the Centre on European Reform, Zach Meyers has a recognised expertise in economic regulation and network industries such as telecoms, energy, payments, financial services and airports. In addition to advising in the private sector, with more than ten years’ experience as a competition and regulatory lawyer, he has consulted to several governments, regulators and multilateral institutions on competition reforms in regulated sectors. He is also a regular contributor to media.

Zach holds a BA, LLB and a Master of Public & International Law from the University of Melbourne.

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