{"id":198483,"date":"2026-03-23T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-says-blackrocks-larry-fink-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:55:11","slug":"ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-says-blackrocks-larry-fink-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-says-blackrocks-larry-fink-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock\u2019s Larry Fink | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/23\/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-blackrock-larry-fink\">AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock\u2019s Larry Fink | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/23\/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-blackrock-larry-fink\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/23\/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-blackrock-larry-fink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-23 12:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, warns in his annual letter to investors that the rapid growth of AI could widen economic inequality.<\/li>\n<li>He highlights that only a select few companies with sufficient data, infrastructure, and funding will benefit significantly, potentially exacerbating social divides.<\/li>\n<li>Despite acknowledging historic trends of transformative technologies creating value predominantly for those who build and deploy them, Fink emphasizes the importance of broadening participation in the AI boom.<\/li>\n<li>There are rising concerns about an AI-investment bubble, with parallels drawn to the dotcom crash and potential for a &#8220;sudden correction&#8221; in global markets.<\/li>\n<li>Fink suggests increasing access to financial markets as a means for more people to participate in and benefit from economic growth created by AI.<\/li>\n<li>He addresses the challenges of housing market entry but advocates for more people investing in capital markets to feel they are part of the prosperity created by AI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock\u2019s Larry Fink | AI (artificial intelligence) https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/23\/ai-boom-risks-widening-wealth-divide-blackrock-larry-fink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a4fc80e643187b6b66f98b0e0f64193afdc28f1e\/428_0_3331_2667\/master\/3331.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=c26cfb00b5ae54e23f23868406a7d5d6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-198483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198485,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198483\/revisions\/198485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}