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The AI Divide Is Here, and Its Consequences Are Devastating | WIRED Middle East

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The promise of AI is concentrated in the hands of the few while exposing vulnerable groups to unchecked control, surveillance and violence. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

AS THE WORLD HURTLES TOWARDS GREATER INEQUALITY, AN AI DIVIDE HAS EMERGED, deepening the rift between those who command the tools of automation and those who are rendered subject to them. In this new order, the gap between those who have and those who don’t is increasingly acute, consigning much of the world to the mercy of opaque algorithmic systems. One man who fears this divide is Dato’ Dan E Khoo, chairman emeritus at the World Innovation, Technology and Services Alliance. “I think of that fear as operating on two levels,” he says. “The first is the national stage, where a potential arms r

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