MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 54.04.00
Within-country issues: domestic inequality
Description
"Our next problem is the fact that the current AI workforce does not evenly represent world demographics. Men from the US and China, working in the US, for US corporations, are disproportionately highly represented [402, 157, 170, 534]. Realizing the full promise of AI requires that people throughout the world and from all social strata are able to use AI and participate in its design and governance. Solving this problem requires addressing unequal access to AI both within countries and across countries."
From Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024 ), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
Subdomain definition: AI-driven concentration of power and resources within certain entities or groups, especially those with access to or ownership of powerful AI systems, leading to inequitable distribution of benefits and increased societal inequality.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem
- Coupang Allegedly Tweaked Search Algorithms to Boost Own Products
- Amazon Allegedly Tweaked Search Algorithm to Boost Its Own Products
- Gmail’s Inbox Sorting System Reportedly Reduced Visibility of Political Emails and Campaign Calls-to-Action
- Google Fined for Changing Shopping Algorithms in EU to Favor Own Service
- Amazon India Allegedly Rigged Search Results to Promote Own Products