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Competing for jobs

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.

"AI agents may compete against humans for jobs, though history shows that when a technology replaces a human job, it creates new jobs that need more skills."(p. 690)

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