AI-based automation increases income inequality
A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values
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.
"It seems quite plausible that progress in reinforcement learning and language models specifically could make it possible to automate a large amount of manual labour and knowledge work respectively [35, 45, 69], leading to widespread unemployment, and the wages for many remaining jobs being driven down by increased supply."(p. 5)
Part of Increased power concentration and inequality
Other risks from Clarke2023 (19)
Worsened conflict
6.4 Competitive dynamicsWorsened conflict > AI enables development of weapons of mass destruction
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harmWorsened conflict > AI enables automation of military decision-making
5.2 Loss of human agency and autonomyWorsened conflict > AI-induced strategic instability
5.2 Loss of human agency and autonomyWorsened conflict > Resource conflicts driven by AI development
6.4 Competitive dynamicsIncreased power concentration and inequality
6.1 Power centralization and unfair distribution of benefits