Geneva Summit 2026 · 12–14 August · Assembly Hall · Palais des Nations

AI as Development
Infrastructure.

For most of the world, artificial intelligence isn't a productivity feature — it's a question of whether the next generation of infrastructure serves them or bypasses them entirely.

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I · The Development Case

Infrastructure decisions, made once.

Roads, electricity grids, and telecoms were each built once, and their distribution shaped decades of inequality. AI infrastructure is being built now.

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    Compute as the new grid

    Access to training and inference compute increasingly determines who can build, not just who can use, AI systems.

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    Skills before tools

    Development-aligned AI policy prioritises local capacity — researchers, engineers, translators — over pre-built imported systems.

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    Measured by outcomes

    Delegates work from real development indicators: health access, agricultural yield, literacy — not abstract capability benchmarks.

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