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10 - The Coming of Artificial Intelligence Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2018

Ronald F. Inglehart
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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High-income countries are now entering the stage of Artificial Intelligence Society-- an advanced phase of the Knowledge Society, in which virtually anyone’s job can be automated. While artificial intelligence has a huge potential to improve our prosperity and health, it also brings a winner-takes-all society that creates a high level of inequality. The deepening inequality in the era of artificial intelligence undermines existential security for most of the population, making many high-income societies regress toward the xenophobic authoritarian politics. The current xenophobic authoritarian politics, however, are different from the xenophobic authoritarianism that surged during the Great Depression in that the current one does not result from objective scarcity. Insecurity today results not from inadequate resources but from misallocation of resources— which is ultimately a political question. With appropriate political realignment and the emergence of a new coalition emerges that restores political power to the majority, humanity can devise the means to stay in control of Artificial Intelligence.
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Cultural Evolution
People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World
, pp. 200 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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