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What does the Jevons Paradox mean for artificial intelligence in global health?
This Q&A with TGLF’s Reda Sadki is based on his remarks at the 26 September 2026 panel titled “Will Cheaper AI Automate Everything? The Economics of AI, the Jevons Paradox, and the Outsourcing of Human Judgment”. The other panelists were Valerie Pelton, General Counsel, Tracked Biotechnologies LLC, United States; Dr. Craig Gibbs, Executive Manager, JET…
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Four billion
A few months ago, a malaria guy showed me the $20 dumb Nokia phones he buys in a Geneva convenience store and then gives out to trainees who then use it to collect data via SMS text messages. ARM says that the US$20 smart phone (read: Android with an ARM chip) will arrive this year. At…
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