https://aifaultline.com/authors/hassan-daliri/New papers by Hassan Daliri in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1163-15691497-20262006/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1163-15691497-20262006/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000An agent-based simulation shows that rapid automation without complementary skills investment sharply worsens income inequality and depresses labor's income share, while combining targeted skill subsidies with progressive taxation substantially reduces inequality at both ends of the distribution and shifts employment toward AI-complementary sectors. The core claim — that AI's distributional effects are policy-contingent rather than technologically predetermined — pushes back on deterministic 'AI will increase inequality' narratives.