Noel King

I think drawing attention to these issues could hopefully potentially change the outcome towards what voters want, what people want.

But I think that we should watch for that distinction between some of these little safeguards that nominally seem like they're going to protect people or carve out a safe space for them and some of the bigger, more existential factors.

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What a beat.

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By now you know that companies will do just about anything to jack up prices on you, and AI is offering them an additional itch.

Dynamic pricing, surveillance pricing, lots of terms that mean companies set prices based on what they know about you.

And they know a lot.

That's coming up on Today Explained.

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