{"id":9799,"date":"2026-08-04T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:03:46","slug":"ai-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/08\/04\/ai-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/publication\/wdr2026\">World Bank, <em>World Development Report 2026<\/em><\/a> &#8211; this report looks at the position of AI in diverse contexts and the potential for inequality.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3msbbaoicfs2y\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreih6h7qgft2z66fuiglpxt5ak36qzxat3qr7cseps4z6kufnbtbhym\"><p lang=\"en\">&#34;In its latest World Development Report, the World Bank said countries that fail to act could increase AI inequality, concentrate market power and weaken trust in public institutions.&#34;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3msbbaoicfs2y?ref_src=embed\">2026-08-04T14:52:20.636Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank, World Development Report 2026 &#8211; this report looks at the position of AI in diverse contexts and the potential for inequality. Details below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9800,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}