Grocery Worker Union Launches Anti-AI Price Setting Campaign (1)

The United Food and Commercial Workers announced a new national campaign targeting companies using surveillance technologies to set grocery prices.

The union said Thursday the effort is aimed at passing legislation that would ban companies from using artificial intelligence to survey customers and set prices, while also protecting members’ jobs.

“We are starting this national campaign to stop corporations from being able to change prices in front of their eyes just because they live in the wrong zipcode or are a new parent,” UFCW International President Milton Jones said in a statement. “Americans are hurting under the affordability crisis, and ...