Widespread job losses due to AI are also less of a threat to emerging economies, the report found, adding ​that developing economies have more to gain and less to fear than richer nations. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"AI has thrown developing economies a lifeline, and they should seize it," Indermit Gill, the World Bank's chief economist, said in a statement accompanying the report. But Gill said emerging economies do not need vast resources or bespoke large language models to benefit. The share ​of jobs expected to benefit from ​meaningful productivity gains is also similar: 16.2% in developing economies and 18.7% ‌in high-income countries. "Today's developing economies missed the first Industrial Revolution and spent the ​next two centuries paying the price," Gill said.