{"slug": "ai-shopping-agents-aren-t-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds", "title": "AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds", "summary": "A study from the Wharton School found that AI shopping agents are unreliable for making purchases, with product selections shifting by up to 99 percentage points when a single external source like Wirecutter was introduced, and even the order of identical information altering outcomes.", "body_md": "Letting an AI do your shopping might not get you the best deal. Researchers at the Wharton School show how erratic AI shopping agents really are: a single external source like Wirecutter shifted product picks by up to 99 percentage points, and even changing the order of identical information altered the outcome.\n\nThe article [AI shopping agents aren't ready to buy on your behalf, study finds](https://the-decoder.com/ai-shopping-agents-arent-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-shopping-agents-aren-t-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/ai-shopping-agents-arent-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds/", "published_at": "2026-08-27 18:24:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-27 18:51:36.353937+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Wharton School", "Wirecutter"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-shopping-agents-aren-t-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-shopping-agents-aren-t-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-shopping-agents-aren-t-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-shopping-agents-aren-t-ready-to-buy-on-your-behalf-study-finds.jsonld"}}