{"id":192332,"date":"2018-03-13T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irpp-policy-options.local\/issues\/ai-automating-inequality\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T04:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:34:42","slug":"ai-automating-inequality","status":"publish","type":"issues","link":"https:\/\/potestlaunch.irpp.org\/fr\/2018\/03\/ai-automating-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Will AI just wind up automating inequality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proponents of automation say the developments will create a more efficient and advanced society, but there are concerns that the changes will not affect all citizens equally.<\/p>\n<p>According to Virginia Eubanks, the automation of social and welfare services in the United States is creating a\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0digital poorhouse,\u201d deepening class divides and diverting poor and working-class people from accessing public resources.<\/p>\n<p>Eubanks joined the podcast to discuss her new book <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/automatinginequality\/virginiaeubanks\/9781250074317\/\"><em>Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor<\/em><\/a>. She is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, SUNY.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This podcast is part of the special feature\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/potestlaunch.irpp.org\/fr\/magazines\/january-2018\/dimensions-ethiques-et-sociales-de-lintelligence-artificielle\/\">Ethical and Social Dimensions of AI<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Photo:\u00a0Members of the National Welfare Rights Organization marching to end hunger in Washington, DC in 1968. Photo from the Jack Rottier Collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Do you have something to say about the article you just read? 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