在关于如何最好地监管人工智能的讨论中，它在全球发展和援助中的作用又该如何看待呢？
Cover image: PEOPLE AND PROFIT © FRANCE 24 In the debate about how best to regulate artificial intelligence, what about its role in development and aid?
虽然有人警告说人工智能可能会加剧不平等，但世界银行认为这项技术可以被用于造福人类。
Warnings about the potential for exacerbating inequality are rife – but the World Bank argues that the technology could be harnessed for good.
世界银行集团董事总经理兼首席知识官帕斯卡尔·多诺霍表示，在农业、教育和医疗保健等行业中，人工智能确实能带来实际的好处。
Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer at the World Bank Group, says there are concrete benefits in industries like farming, education and healthcare. "We know that artificial intelligence can play a role in crop productivity.
‘我们知道人工智能可以提高农作物产量，通过帮助农民更好地管理种植和收获，从而提高他们的生产力和收入。’
By playing a role in helping farmers better managing what they are planting and harvesting, it has a bigger impact on their productivity and the income they gain.
他在印度看到了一个明显的例子：当地的小米农民通过使用人工智能，获得了关于如何种植和收割水稻的更好建议。
And I saw a very clear example of this in India where I saw small rice farmers who, through use of artificial intelligence, were given better advice on how rice could be planted and harvested."
他认为，如果人工智能能够根据发展中国家的需求进行定制（他称之为‘小型人工智能’），这些国家就能从中受益。
这意味着这种人工智能更适合当地情况，能够在连接性或电力条件较差的环境中运行。
He believes developing economies can reap the benefits of AI if it's tailored to their needs – which he refers to as small AI. "That means AI that is more appropriately adjusted to local circumstances, has a higher ability to run offline, will have the ability to operate in environments in which connectivity or electricity may not be at a very high level."
多诺霍强调，尽管技术正在改变人们的日常生活，但发展机构仍然致力于解决不平等问题以及提供清洁水、医疗保健和教育等基本需求。‘在推动人工智能发展的过程中，我们必须时刻牢记这些问题。
Donohoe says that even as technology transforms daily life, development agencies remain focused on addressing inequality and basic needs like access to clean water healthcare and education. "By ensuring in dealing with the development of artificial intelligence, that we do not for a moment lose sight of all [those] issues (...)
我们认识到人工智能正在带来的变化，并认为，虽然它确实带来挑战，但特别是‘小型人工智能’，如果结合正确的政策加以利用，可以发挥积极作用。’
We are recognising the change that is now taking place with AI, and we are making the case that while of course it brings challenges, small AI in particular, harnessed correctly with the right policies around it, can play a positive role."