CT senator sounds alarm on new AI use: hiking prices based on your private information

Blumenthal calls out Delta Airlines for using AI to determine ticket prices

A Delta Airlines plane is serviced.(Gene J. Puskar / AP)U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) spoke out against Delta Airlines after it announced plans to use artificial intelligence to set individualized airfares.Based on consumer data, the company plans to set specific prices for certain individuals. Delta plans to expand the use of AI to determine prices based on personal information potentially obtained through various third-party channels.Blu…

CT senator sounds alarm on new AI use: hiking prices based on your private information

"It's a new era, based on artificial intelligence in pricing that is profoundly dangerous to personal privacy," CT's U.S. Sen. Blumenthal said.

US Senator Raises Alarm Over Delta Air Lines’ Testing of ‘Personalized’ Pricing

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is warning that Delta Air Lines’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) to tailor airfare prices to individual customers represents a troubling shift toward what he calls “surveillance pricing.” [contact-form-7] “I’ve recently seen where I think AI can be used handily in a very anti-consumer way. And that’s what Delta Air Lines is starting to do,” Warner said at a Senate subcommittee hearing on AI held Wednesday (J…

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