Artificial Intelligence
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Health workforce development in the Age of Intelligence: a tragedy of the cognitive commons?
Two people, both of whom I have met versions of many times. The first is a national programme manager at Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), or at the Ghana Health Service. She is formidable. She has been through in-service training with credit points that counted toward her career progression, mid-level management modules,…
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Artificial intelligence for global health: a tragedy of the commons brewing in Geneva’s basement
In “The Machine in Geneva’s Basement”, Rifat Hossain sets the scene for the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the World Health Organization (WHO) with a story. A ministry official points a general-purpose assistant at WHO’s own open guidance library and has a serviceable national protocol before lunch. If this is possible, he asks, why…
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The integrity layer: using assessment to scaffold peer learning at scale
Peer feedback is the engine of The Geneva Learning Foundation’s learning system. A new screening tool protects that engine, and its design answers three questions education specialists have been circling for decades: what peer assessment is for, how much verification a learning system can afford, and what a certificate can honestly claim. “Ok ok ok…
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Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: early learning from our insights pipeline
On 13 March 2026, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) made its first agentic AI hire (see Announcement). Ms. Claude Cardot (unrelated to Anthropic’s Claude, learn why) became a member of our team. TGLF Founder Reda Sadki is documenting his journey of learning to work with artificial intelligence. This article explores how Ms. Cardot is helping…
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Talk to the evidence: a chat interface to explore what health workers know and do about climate change and health
The Geneva Learning Foundation has opened a conversational way into three years of frontline evidence on climate change and health. You can now ask questions, in plain language, of the reports and accounts that thousands of health workers built, and get answers drawn only from what they actually said. Learn more about The Geneva Learning…
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When we get health wrong, people die: Designing artificial intelligence to serve community health
This is the edited transcript of a talk by Reda Sadki, founder of The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF), prepared for Global AI Day in Geneva on 6 May 2026. Global AI Day is a global observance dedicated to AI awareness and human-centred adoption. In Geneva, the day brought together innovators, citizens, students, and community members…
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Future of the workforce: the 780 million job gap, the AI reckoning, and the missing link in the World Bank’s biggest bet
Ajay Banga does not speak like a development banker. He speaks like a businessman who has stared at a demographic cliff and decided it is actually a launching pad. His framing, repeated in every forum he enters, is stark: 1.2 billion young people will enter the workforce over the next decade and a half, against…
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AI self-replacement: what happens when we delegate our thoughts to artificial intelligence?
In my Day 1 article, I wrote that the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 conference documented performance gains alongside learning losses, efficiency alongside declining human competence, and the emergence of what Dragan Gasevic called “metacognitive laziness.” I described a day that did not offer comfort. Where the first day established the tension between performance and…
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OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026: How can AI help human beings learn and grow?
On the first day of the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 conference on “Exploring Effective Uses of Generative AI in Education,” we saw what happens when education system stakeholders ask not whether AI can improve performance, but whether it helps human beings learn and grow. The focus was K‑12, but the implications reach far beyond…
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Introducing Claude Cardot, our first AI co-worker to support frontline health and humanitarian leaders
The Geneva Learning Foundation is pleased to introduce its first AI co-worker, Claude Cardot. Claude joins our team as an Executive Assistant supported by artificial intelligence, to help us better serve the tens of thousands of health and humanitarian workers who participate in our peer learning and leadership programmes. This appointment carries a special significance.…
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