AXIOS (Zachary Basu) - Haves, have-nots and know-nots: Inside AI's new class divide
A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience artificial intelligence : - For frontier power users, AI feels like a revolution: a force capable of conjuring companies, building software and solving complex problems at warp speed. - For the average person, it feels more like an evolution: a smarter search bar, a faster inbox, an ambient tech layer that saves time — but not much else. Why it matters: Trillions of dollars in economic value — and the livelihoods of millions of workers — are being staked on a technology that most Americans neither trust nor fully understand. - It's a new chapter in America's digital divide — the AI "haves," "have-nots" and "know-nots" — with profound implications for the future…