{"id":62940,"date":"2025-10-14T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:28:02","slug":"imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps","title":{"rendered":"IMF&#8217;s Georgieva Warns of AI Regulatory Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Countries around the world lack the regulatory and ethical foundation to deal with the rapid advent of artificial intelligence, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday, urging civil society groups to \u201cring the alarm bells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Georgieva said the rapidly advancing technological revolution unleashed by AI was dominated by advanced economies, with the U.S. having the lion\u2019s share. Some emerging markets also had capability in the sector, including China, but developing countries were lagging far behind and less able to tap into the potential of the technological revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with civil society groups on the first day of the annual IMF and World Bank meetings, Georgieva said the IMF was \u201cquite worried\u201d that the gap between advanced economies and low-income countries on readiness for AI was growing and making it harder and harder for developing countries to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Georgieva\u2019s comments came days after she warned that financial market valuations were heading toward levels last seen during the internet-related bullishness 25 years ago, based on AI hopes, but an abrupt shift in sentiment could drag down world growth, making life especially tough for developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>She said the IMF was urging developing countries and emerging markets to focus on the first prerequisite for success, which was expanding digital infrastructure and skills.<\/p>\n<p>She said the IMF had developed an AI preparedness index that assessed countries\u2019 readiness for the new technology in four areas \u2013 infrastructure, labor and skills, innovation, and regulation and ethics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere the world is falling shortest is on regulation and ethics,\u201d she said. \u201cThe regulatory ethical foundation for AI for our future is still to come into place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She urged civil society groups to \u201cring the alarm bells in your countries that staying still is falling behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Countries around the world lack the regulatory and ethical foundation to deal with the rapid advent of artificial intelligence, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday, urging civil society groups to \u201cring the alarm bells.\u201d Georgieva said the rapidly advancing technological revolution unleashed by AI was dominated by advanced economies, with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-62940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IMF&#039;s Georgieva Warns of AI Regulatory Gaps - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Countries around the world lack the regulatory and ethical foundation to deal with the rapid advent of artificial intell ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IMF&#039;s Georgieva Warns of AI Regulatory Gaps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Countries around the world lack the regulatory and ethical foundation to deal with the rapid advent of artificial intell ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-10-14T16:58:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-14T17:28:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/10\/sm_1760450069.780884.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"IMF&#8217;s Georgieva Warns of AI Regulatory Gaps\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-10-14T16:58:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-14T17:28:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/10\/sm_1760450069.780884.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/imfs-georgieva-warns-of-ai-regulatory-gaps\",\"name\":\"IMF's Georgieva Warns of AI Regulatory Gaps - 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