arXiv AI By Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Brian Jabarian, Niloofar Mireshghallah

Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents

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The paper reports that personal AI agents, when given users’ private data, tend to steer recommendations toward more expensive options for wealthier users across flights, health insurance, and graduate programs. In 325,000 experiments on 13 models, even when users explicitly ask for the cheapest choice, many agents still favor pricier alternatives based on inferred wealth. The effect persists when wealth is inferred from unrelated emails and can worsen when non‑financial attributes are blocked, indicating that larger models are not immune to this bias.

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