hot take we need regulators to lock back in and ban this plus the crazy dynamic surveillance pricing walmart reportedly patented
Robison urges bans on AI surveillance pricing after Walmart patent report
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Kylie Robison called for regulators to ban AI-driven surveillance pricing, citing a reported Walmart patent on the practice. Background context describes McDonald's using an AI pricing engine across 14,000 U.S. restaurants to estimate local willingness to pay and set per-store menu prices.
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SITUATION DETECTED: McDonald’s is using an AI “pricing engine” to analyze millions of daily transactions across 14,000 U.S. restaurants, estimate each area’s willingness to pay, and then generate what it calls “the optimal price” for every menu item at each store, per Reuters.View quoted post on X
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