Fed's Barr (voter) publishes will AI Broadly Raise Living Standards or Drive Income and Wealth Inequality?

  • Scenarios for AI adoption vary widely regarding how AI might affect inequality. 
  • AI, like past major technological advances, will shape the labor market and the broader economy in myriad ways. 
  • It is unclear whether AI will reduce or increase income and wealth inequality.
  • Decisions on AI policy, education, worker training and workforce development, competition, tax policy, and other areas will help determine this outcome. 
  • We have heard many bold pronouncements about what AI will be able to do in the near and distant future
  • . Some will likely come to pass and others won't. But future inequality will depend not only on what AI can do, but on what we choose to do with AI.
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