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Artificial Intelligence, Development, and Stratification Economics

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  • Diego Lanzi

    (Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna)

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Will AI-based automation exacerbate inequality and poverty both within and among developing countries? Could the AI revolution trigger a kind of ‘‘Malthusian dynamic†for poorer nations? To explore these questions, we draw on insights from stratification economics, alongside several economic arguments suggesting that AI may impede the economic convergence of developing countries. Our analysis indicates that, in the wake of AI-driven automation, upward mobility within the global macroeconomic hierarchy is likely to become a critical political challenge for both developing and underdeveloped nations. We argue that the benefits of AI-based automation will accrue mainly to a limited group of countries – the most advanced economies and a handful of high-income emerging ones – while, for the rest of the world, the AI revolution may present not a nightmare, but a formidable developmental obstacle.

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  • Diego Lanzi, 2025. "Artificial Intelligence, Development, and Stratification Economics," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, vol. 133(3), pages 337-350.
    • Handle: RePEc:vep:journl:y:2025:v:133:i:3:p:337-350
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    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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