"The world is teetering on the edge of an Artificial Intelligence ( AI) disaster in which a tiny elite class live in luxury while the majority suffer. That's according to Dex Hunter-Torricke, a former communications chief at Google's AI arm DeepMind, who has worked for Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Mr Hunter-Torricke, who is a non-executive board member of HM Treasury, wrote in an essay that Big Tech's leaders are driving society towards a radical and disastrous transformation."
"By mid-century, on this trajectory, we arrive at something that goes beyond inequality and begins to look like economic speciation. 'An elite class with AI-augmented capabilities enabling lives of luxury, equipped with medical breakthroughs that deliver longer lifespans, living in parallel with a global majority whose economic prospects, healthcare access, and political power have been permanently curtailed. 'This is not a prediction I make lightly. We can see the forces already clearly in motion.'"
Rapid advances in AI risk producing extreme economic inequality that could evolve into economic speciation by mid-century. An elite class with AI-augmented capabilities could enjoy luxury, medical breakthroughs, and longer lifespans while a global majority faces permanently curtailed economic prospects, healthcare access, and political power. Widespread automation threatens mass job displacement, and existing estimates that 60 percent of jobs are vulnerable may substantially understate the true impact. Big technology leaders are driving transformative change while apparent coordinated planning and preparedness remain absent as AI capabilities accelerate.
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