{"id":217712,"date":"2026-05-20T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/barnes-proposes-ban-on-ai-price-gouging-in-wisconsin-governors-race\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:00:36","slug":"barnes-proposes-ban-on-ai-price-gouging-in-wisconsin-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/barnes-proposes-ban-on-ai-price-gouging-in-wisconsin-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes proposes ban on \u2018AI price gouging\u2019 in Wisconsin governor\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/20\/barnes-proposes-ban-ai-set-pricing-wisconsin-governors-race\/\">Barnes proposes ban on \u2018AI price gouging\u2019 in Wisconsin governor\u2019s race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/20\/barnes-proposes-ban-ai-set-pricing-wisconsin-governors-race\/\">https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/20\/barnes-proposes-ban-ai-set-pricing-wisconsin-governors-race\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 19:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wbay.com\">www.wbay.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes proposes to ban the use of artificial intelligence for dynamic pricing on consumer goods and services if elected.<\/li>\n<li>Barnes claims insurers are using AI to deny healthcare claims and raise premiums, and large grocers like Walmart are setting different prices based on consumers&#8217; internet history.<\/li>\n<li>Barnes\u2019 proposal aims to ban AI dynamic pricing, with a focus on penalizing companies that use AI for unfair practices, including insurance claim denials and personalized pricing based on customer data like browsing history.<\/li>\n<li>He emphasizes that he will work with the legislature to craft a bipartisan bill to implement these bans and has suggested enacting strong laws to hold bad actors accountable.<\/li>\n<li>Industry experts argue that AI can impact pricing strategies, such as inflating prices based on perceived consumer fear of missing out.<\/li>\n<li>The Wisconsin Grocers Association is concerned about the potential impact of such a ban and plans to discuss it with Barnes.    <\/li>\n<li>Several states, including Maryland, California, New York, and Connecticut, already have similar bans in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes proposes ban on \u2018AI price gouging\u2019 in Wisconsin governor\u2019s race https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/2026\/05\/20\/barnes-proposes-ban-ai-set-pricing-wisconsin-governors-race\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wbay-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/CNLLSE7UGJCTFOH4M36B6ZOBOA.jpg?auth=8bfa8d961ab3a4c9c4226e5c514ee85bc53f8922d4da66ef560b12d4530feead&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217714,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217712\/revisions\/217714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}