Devaluation of Labor & Heightened Economic Inequality

"According to a White House report, much of the development and adoption of AI is intended to automate rather than augment work. The report notes that a focus on automation could lead to a less democratic and less fair labor market...In addition, generative AI fuels the continued global labor disparities that exist in the research and development of AI technologies... The development of AI has always displayed a power disparity between those who work on AI models and those who control and profit from these tools. Overseas workers training AI chatbots or people whose online content has been involuntarily fed into the training models do not reap the enormous profits that generative AI tools accrue. Instead, companies exploiting underpaid and replaceable workers or the unpaid labor of artists and content creators are the ones coming out on top. The development of generative AI technologies only contributes to this power disparity, where tech companies that heavily invest in generative AI tools benefit at the expense of workers.(p. 48)