Read later Audio version Summary: While AI may offer the “biggest wealth opportunity of our lifetime”, the big question is will that wealth be limited to the technically-savvy and well-educated? (PIxabay) Rising levels of systemic inequality are becoming an “insidious side-effect of our increasingly AI-powered society” due to changes in the nature of work, according to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR). The piece entitled ‘ Algorithms are making economic inequality worse’ puts forward a number of key arguments to make its case. It posits that a new digital divide is widening the career, and therefore the wage, gap between workers who have access to higher education, leadership mentoring and job experience, and those who don’t.