One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers’ personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban what they consider predatory surveillance pricing.
In a press release, Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The law directly bans companies from using “surveillance-based” price or wage setting to increase their profit margins.
If passed, the law would allow anyone to sue companies found unfairly using AI, lawmakers explained in what’s called a “one-sheet.” That could mean charging customers higher prices—based on “how desperate a customer is for a product and the maximum amount a customer is willing to pay”—or paying employees lower wages—based on “their financial status, personal associations, and demographics.”
and that’s where i stopped. why would the AI president sign anything that hampers the “growth” of AI? it sucks, i hate it, and that means republicans support it.
Democracy sucks when nothing I support has the faintest chance of passing.
And it’s that way due to things like (but not limited to) gerrymandering.
This is not a democracy any longer. It hasn’t been for a while.
I’m not even convinced the last election wasn’t compromised.
just the way the billionaires like it!
They can kindly fuck off.