Companies like Uber and Amazon use AI to pay people different wages for the same work, a new study finds
"From Amazon to Uber to the healthcare sector, workers are being paid different amounts for the same amount of work that is conducted for the same amount of time," said Dubal, whose research was published in the Social Science Research Network in January and will be included in a forthcoming Columbia Law Review.
"It's basically variable pay that's personalized to individuals based on what is really, really a lot of data that's accumulated on those workers while they're working," Dubal said. "It feels like the algorithm is turned against you," he said, adding that it"literally feels like you're being punished by some unknown spiteful God."
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