AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds

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Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal.

Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single external source like Wirecutter shifted product picks by up to 99 percentage points, and even changing the order of identical information altered the outcome.

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