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Inequality of wealth

Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review

Meek et al. (2016)

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Social and economic inequalities caused by widespread use of AI, such as by automating jobs, reducing the quality of employment, or producing exploitative dependencies between workers and their employers.

"Because a single human actor controlling an artificially intelligent agent will be able to harness greater power than a single human actor, this may create inequalities of wealth"(p. 688)

Other risks from Meek et al. (2016) (17)