AGI: AI and inequality: How smart machines exacerbate demographic bias and inequality
AI AND INEQUALITY: HOW SMART MACHINES EXACERBATE DEMOGRAPHIC BIAS AND INEQUALITY
Date: Friday, January 11 2019, 1230 – 1400
Venue: Asia Global Institute, MB 328, 3/F Main Building, HKU
How does AI generate riches, redistribute wealth and distort the labour market in multicultural societies? How will AI distort off-shoring and upend the traditional development model? As AI displaces humans from their jobs, economic value will be transferred from labour to capitalists, particularly the ‘super-elites’. In an era where capital is mobile while labour is less so, AI will exacerbate already-high levels of inequality if left unmanaged.
The slides can be found here.
