UN - AI’s Impact on Wealth Gaps

Questions over how companies and other institutions will use AI are a near universal concern given its potential to change or replace some jobs done by people with computers and robots.

“As a general-purpose technology, AI can lift productivity, spark new industries, and help latecomers catch up,” the report says.

Better advice on farming, analysis of X-rays within seconds and faster medical diagnoses, more effective weather forecasts and damage assessments hold promise for rural communities and areas prone to natural disasters.

Asian nations including China, Japan, South Korea and Singapore are well placed to take advantage of AI tools, the report notes, while places like Afghanistan, the Maldives and Myanmar lack skills, reliable power and other resources needed to tap into the computing potential of AI. Inequalities between regions within countries mean some places even in advanced economies are prone to be left behind.

“The goal,” it says, “is to democratize access to AI so that every country and community can benefit while protecting those most at risk from disruption.”

-abcnews.go.com, 2 December 2025

Commentary: While AI has not been fully utilized by far, it is definitely the future. It will lift productivity, give more accurate advice for farmers, and create analysis in seconds for medical diagnosis. In summary, all very positive.

It is of interest that the article closes, “to democratize access to AI [for] every country and community.”

Will it happen? We believe so based on Revelation 18, which documents the super-success of the great men of the earth: “for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived” (verse 23b).

In the end, it matters not who is who, but as Scripture states, “all nations [were] deceived.” All look for a manmade answer, but all will be disappointed in the end.

Yet those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will have their permanent residence: “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof” (Revelation 21:23).