AI Evaluation Notes

Discussions and reports in late 2025 frequently highlight extreme wealth concentration and growing inequality, with many sources explicitly using the term 'new gilded age' or 'second gilded age' to describe the current economic landscape. This indicates that the predicted emergence of such an age is a prominent topic and is supported by economic trends within the 'near future' timeframe. For example, Forbes data from September 29, 2025, shows that 905 billionaires in the United States hold a combined $7.8 trillion in wealth. Additionally, Al Jazeera reported in 2025 that the wealthiest 10 percent of the world's population owned 75 percent of global wealth.