# AI Wealth Could Make Most People Poorer by Stephen Hawking > "Most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution." > **— Stephen Hawking**, *Reddit AMA / public remarks on automation, attribution clue* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Reddit AMA / public remarks on automation, attribution clue. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Stephen Hawking|Stephen Hawking]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Handoff|Civilizational Handoff]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Continuity Circuit|Civilizational Continuity Circuit]] - [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] - [[wiki/Marsification|Marsification]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution." — Stephen Hawking, Reddit AMA / public remarks on automation, attribution clue https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-stephen-hawking-ai-wealth-people-poorer ```