AI Digital Divide
Concerns & RisksProvisional
Concern that uneven AI adoption, whether driven by refusal, lack of access, or cost barriers, is creating a new class of disadvantaged individuals and communities, distinct from the traditional digital divide in that the gap is between AI users and non-users rather than between those with and without internet access
Evidence
“I worry for people who don't understand it. There's a huge, the majority is like, "I'm afraid of AI," or you know, Gen Z is absolutely opposed to it. And I think about, you know, there's also like a gender gap apparently, they say. I don't know if I buy it. In enterprise, women, I think, are leading the way. In general I think women are more cautious. So, the environmental piece is always front and center for me. But the people who are blowing it off without trying it and not like 10xing themselves, like I want to see, you know, women in business thrive. And if they automatically are a hard no on it, they're putting themselves at a disadvantage. So I worry about that a little bit.”
“But I am a philanthropist at heart, so really for me it's closing those gaps, the gender gaps, the pay gaps, the poverty gaps. That to me would be the best thing that could happen.”