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Algorithms · April 2015

Researchers Warned Pricing Bots Could Learn to Collude

Researchers warned that pricing algorithms could learn to collude like a cartel without any human telling them to, fixing prices while everyone blames the market. No one has been caught yet, which is exactly what a good cartel would say.

Source: The New Yorker

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