Today’s real AI threat isn’t extinction, it’s a Global South wealth drain into US dollar - The Sunday Guardian
Today’s real AI threat isn’t extinction, it’s a Global South wealth drain into US dollar - The Sunday Guardian
Source: The Sunday Guardian
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DW NOTE
The argument isn't wrong — AI compute is dollar-denominated, trained on English-language data, and sold by American corporations — but framing it as tomorrow's threat misses that it's already operational. Emerging markets are paying for cloud inference in dollars they don't print, to solve problems in languages the models weren't trained on, while the capital accumulation from productivity gains accrues to Nvidia shareholders and hyperscaler equity. That's not a future risk, it's this quarter's invoice.