4 surprising ways AI is making your life more expensive

Democracy Dies in DarknessThese goods and services are getting more expensive due to spillover from massive tech company investments in artificial intelligence.Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT(Illustration by Katty Huertas/The Washington Post; iStock)9 minAmericans keep getting walloped by rising prices, including from the Iran war that is making it painful to buy gasoline. Now there’s another culprit for sticker shocks: artificial intelligence.As AI companies sink hundreds of billions of dollars into developing their technology and building out computer hubs to run AI, their spending is likely pushing up inflation in the United States, according to some Federal Reserve officials and Wall Street assessments.