{
  "id": 9469581,
  "title": "Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/shopping-by-algorithm-how-agentic-ai-deploys-human-heuristics-as-a",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-23T16:47:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28372v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Consumers increasingly delegate purchasing decisions to Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as surrogate consumers. Using \"Tool-Lab,\" an adaptation of information-board process tracing that places product attributes behind costly tool calls, we examine how marketing pricing cues (i.e., just-below pricing and promotional framing) influence AI shopping agents. Across eight commercially deployed…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}