AI承诺提高生产力。但有些省钱措施会把费用转嫁给工人、法院、基础设施和其他企业。
AI promises productivity gains. But some savings push costs onto workers, courts, infrastructure and other businesses.
堪培拉 — 人工智能可能会让法律咨询更便宜，但同时可能让法院开支更高。它能让零售商在日常运营中更高效，但可能会增加工伤赔偿索赔。为这些技术提供动力的基础设施建设者可能会与疲弱的住宅房地产市场抢夺电工、电力和水资源。
CANBERRA — Artificial Intelligence could make legal advice cheaper and courts more expensive. It could make retailers more efficient in day-to-day operations while increasing workers’ compensation claims. Those who build the infrastructure to power these technologies will likely compete with the struggling residential housing market for electricians, electricity and water.
这些是提交给联合国选举委员会人工智能特别小组（Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence）的几项令人惊讶的经济影响，预计将于11月提交报告。
These are three of the more surprising economic impacts of AI, outlined in submissions to a Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, due to report back in November.
这些影响表明，人工智能不仅会引发生产力提升和就业损失，还会在经济体内部转移成本：当某些组织通过采用人工智能节省资金时，其他组织可能不得不承担更多费用。以下是九个人工智能可能引发令人意想不到的经济影响的实例：
They show AI does more than prompt productivity gains and job losses: It moves costs around the economy, so that as some organizations save money through AI adoption, others can be left to pick up the tab. Here are nine instances where AI is having, or could have, surprising economic impacts: