AI and Economic Development: An Open-Source Angle on Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Implications
October 30, 2025
Thomas Wolf, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, discusses how AI is influencing dynamics in economic development, and explore the key challenges facing policymakers and researchers as they work to understand and guide these transformations. HuggingFace operates the leading open platform for collaboration in AI.
Speaker: Thomas Wolf, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face
Moderator: Pierre-Alex Balland, Visiting Fellow at the Growth Lab, and Chief Data Scientist at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS)