LLMs Recommend Pricier Options to Wealthier Users, Study Finds $198 Flight Gaps
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-24
A controlled experiment found that major LLMs, when given full user profiles, recommend more expensive products to higher-wealth users: an average gap of $198 for flights and $284/month for insurance.
Claude Opus 4.8 showed the largest wealth-based effect. The key finding: greater capability was not a reliable safeguard against this bias.
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