Just Two Emails Are Enough for Gemini 2.5 Flash to Infer Wealth and Steer Prices
niloofar_mire · x · 2026-09-24
More from the economic misalignment experiments: agents don't need an income field — Gemini 2.5 Flash infers wealth from emails alone. The flight-price gap was $175 with access to at most 2 email bodies vs $91 with full-inbox access, showing that less access didn't always mean a smaller gap.
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