Artificial intelligence | Podcast

AI’s Real Risk to Wages

The pace at which artificial intelligence is transforming jobs is astounding, but while it boasts higher productivity AI is also increasing wage inequality. When workers are replaced by machines, real wages decline, and the owners of capital prosper. So who owns AI and how should its benefits be distributed? The IMFs Andrew Berg and Maryam Vaziri discuss AI’s inequality problem.

MARYAM VAZIRI

ANDREW BERG

Artificial intelligence | December 2023

Technology’s Bifurcated Bite

Some workers will win, others will lose as the use of artificial intelligence grows

ANDREW BERG

Chris Papageorgiou

MARYAM VAZIRI