In the 2026 VoD Winter Issue No.1, we explore perhaps the most pressing question of our time: What Can Artificial Intelligence Really Do?
This issue moves past speculation and hype to examine AI as it is actually being deployed: inside governments, markets, infrastructure systems, and everyday decision-making.
Once a promise of the future, AI is now a present-day force already shaping power, labor, and institutional capacity.
Across politics, technology, food systems, climate, and markets, this edition traces where AI is delivering real leverage, where it is failing to translate into impact, and where its costs: social, environmental, and political, are being quietly absorbed.
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Designed as a seasonal publication, Voice of Development brings together research, reporting, and analysis meant to be read deliberately and revisited over time. Winter 2026 is a starting point: an attempt to answer, with clarity and restraint, what AIs can actually do—and what they cannot do.
Disclaimer: VoD Capsules are AI-curated, and human-reviewed.
They synthesize publicly available evidence from reputable institutions (UN, World Bank, AfDB, OECD, academic work, andother such official data sources). Always consult the original reports and primary data for verification.
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