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This is a reasonable application, but AI-powered price discrimination definitely raises some ethical questions. What if we find that one ethnic group is being c
by chis 9y ago
This is a reasonable application, but AI-powered price discrimination definitely raises some ethical questions. What if we find that one ethnic group is being charged more for a product? That would certainly be illegal for a traditional store, but would be difficult to detect online.
Sadly it's already happening and is impossible to regulate for electronic products.
- bduerst 9y agoOne of the benefits of using a model like this is that it can make recommendations that are contradictive of human biases but still high quality. For any hypothetical situation, "What if AI makes this unethical recommendation?", we can't actually answer this question unless it happens, because as humans, the reasoning behind such a situation are hard for us to imagine in a hypothetical.
- outsidetheparty 9y ago> AI-powered price discrimination They do make a point of saying "The cost of a subscription doesn’t vary based on a reader’s score", probably for exactly the reasons you cite -- that's some murky untested law to wade into. I'm sure no company wants to be the first to have to base their defense on "but the AI did it!" A discriminatory paywall has a similar effect as discriminatory pricing, but feels like safer legal territory because it happens before money changes hands. (But does it still count as discrimination if you give the product away for free, but only to certain types of customer?)