Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse

Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse

HBR Staff/Oleksandr Shchus/Getty Images The risks of algorithmic discrimination and bias have received much attention and scrutiny, and rightly so. Yet there is another more insidious side-effect of our increasingly AI-powered society — the systematic inequality created by the changing nature of work itself. We fear a future where robots take our jobs, but what happens when a significant portion of the workforce ends up in algorithmically managed jobs with little future and few possibilities for advancement?

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