Turing Award winner Patterson: developing nations will adopt AI faster
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-10-02
Turing Award winner David Patterson, posting from the Ethiopian AI Institute, pushes back on the view that underdeveloped countries will adopt AI more slowly. His argument: those countries need the prosperity, healthcare, and education gains AI (superintelligence) will bring the most — so they will adopt it faster, not slower.
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