An Overview Analysis of AI Divide: Applications and Prospects of AI Divide in China’s Society

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.002How to use a DOI?

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Al divide; Digital divide; Artificial intelligence; Information inequity; China

Abstract

Artificial intelligence technology is improving in China as technology advances. Artificial intelligence’s rapid development as a new type of technology has sparked inequalities in social information technology, worsening regional and inter-generational development imbalances. Carter et al. proposed the notion of the AI divide to explain this occurrence, concluding that the AI divide in the era of intelligence consists of three elements: access gap, capacity gap, and result gap. This essay will examine the potential and applications of the AI divide in Chinese society using Carter’s framework. This study found the benefits AI brings to the development of China’s society. However, due to wealth disparities in China, as well as people’s concerns about privacy leakage, there is still a lack of access. The growth of AI will exacerbate the capacity gap by creating an inter-generational imbalance, while it will easily provoke a disability digital divide for individuals with disabilities. AI technology will exacerbate the social gap by making people with priority access dominant in the outcome gap. The problem of social inequalities arising from the AI divide will continue to reveal along with the maturing of Artificial Intelligence.

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