Measure of AI

Measure of AI

Robots & Babies - Part 2

In a world with a fertility crisis, can AI help us? Or will it be our doom?

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Azmain Hossain
Jun 14, 2026
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$500,000,000,000

That is roughly what South Korea has spent on pro-natal policy since 2006. Over the same period, its fertility rate fell from 1.13 to 0.80.

Hungary spends around 5% of GDP on family policy; the rate fell anyway.

France, Europe’s celebrated model, sits below replacement and drifting lower.

The only rich country comfortably above replaceme…

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