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.
"These harms pertain to an individual’s or group’s economic standing. At the individual level, such harms include adverse impacts on an individual’s income, job quality or employment status. At the group level, such harms include deepening inequalities between groups or frustrating a group’s access to resources. Advanced AI assistants could cause economic harm by controlling, limiting or eliminating an individual’s or society’s ability to access financial resources, money or financial decision-making, thereby influencing an individual’s ability to accumulate wealth.(p. 88)
Part of AI Influence
Other risks from Gabriel et al. (2024) (69)
Capability failures
7.3 Lack of capability or robustnessCapability failures > Lack of capability for task
7.3 Lack of capability or robustnessCapability failures > Difficult to develop metrics for evaluating benefits or harms caused by AI assistants
6.5 Governance failureCapability failures > Safe exploration problem with widely deployed AI assistants
7.3 Lack of capability or robustnessGoal-related failures
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesGoal-related failures > Misaligned consequentialist reasoning
7.3 Lack of capability or robustness