The Potential Social Impact of the Artificial Intelligence Divide

This article describes the artificial intelligence (AI) divide, its social impact, and begins to prescribe policies to close this gap between those who benefit from AI data, algorithms, and hardware and those who are primarily exploited by them. Without a digitally aware, algorithm-literate public and an equitable public policy on AI, the AI divide will increasingly impact negatively those in lower socioeconomic classes in the U.S. and around the world.