Stephan Engl

Death = AI

technology

Pink flowers and eucalyptus on a pale wooden church pew, with seated people softly blurred in the background.

Death is called the great equalizer.

AI raises a stranger possibility: equality before the end.

But AI is only equalizing if access to it does not become another privilege.1 If money buys the better tools, or politics decides who may use them, the old game survives inside the new one.

Death levels the field by ending the game.

Can AI change the odds while we are still playing?

  1. World Bank, Digital Progress and Trends Report 2025: Strengthening AI Foundations, 2025, key findings – a data-driven account of the global AI divide and the connectivity, compute, context and competency that shape who can benefit from AI.