HUMHUM-005 — Workforce Displacement Anxiety
AI Systems Widening Societal Inequality and Eroding Community Cohesion
4/5Sector: TechnologyGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI and automation systems are amplifying disparities in wealth and social status between groups, undermining community cohesion and stability. Boards face mounting regulatory and reputational exposure as technology deployment without equity safeguards accelerates structural inequality.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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