AI RESEARCH
When AI Levels the Playing Field: Skill Homogenization, Asset Concentration, and Two Regimes of Inequality
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.05565v1 Announce Type: cross Generative AI compresses within-task skill differences while shifting economic value toward concentrated complementary assets, creating an apparent paradox: the technology that equalizes individual performance may widen aggregate inequality. We formalize this tension in a task-based model with endogenous education, employer screening, and heterogeneous firms. The model yields two regimes whose boundary depends on AI's technology structure (