AI and Algorithms at Work: Wages Set Based on Your Debt
Cory Doctorow explained on Jon Stewart's podcast how behavioral surveillance lets apps adjust pay and prices according to a user's financial need. Uber's algorithm tracks if a driver accepts low fares and then offers even lower ones, while healthcare staffing apps buy credit card data to offer lower wages to nurses with more debt, exploiting what Doctorow called a 'desperation premium.'
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- Organisation involved
- Uber
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