Prices in the Machine
News Source : The American Prospect
News Summary
- AI can depict you as an anime character.
- It can respond half-intelligently to questions about the Franco-Prussian War.
- But none of that is as prized by corporate America as its data-driven approach to the previously conjectural world of pricing.
- The public recoils at the thought of seeing prices tick up based on when they like to get lunch or what device they’re using.
- Delta, which employs Fetcherr as a pricing agent, announced on an earnings call this summer that up to 20 percent of its flights would be priced using AI by the end of the year.
This article appears in theDecember 2025issue ofThe American Prospect magazine.Subscribe here.Earlier this year, a slightly balding man in spectacles, a black Tshirt, and bright hightop sneake [+27405 chars]
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