What Happens When AI Sets Wages

Authors: Maxime C. Cohen, Eddy Hage-Youssef and Warut Khern-am-nuai

Publication: Harvard Business Review
October 2025

Abstract::

Generative AI is no longer just automating text; with AI-based wage-setting, it’s shaping paychecks, livelihoods, and access to opportunity. Left unchecked, these systems risk reinforcing, or even widening, global inequalities. New research shows that AI-based wage-setting can be fairer, but only if it’s designed and governed that way.