AI Anxiety: Is the algorithm out to get you?

How travel companies use AI as a digital pickpocket — and how you can fight back

Worried about every little ding on your rental car? Do you always go into "anonymous" mode on your web browser before booking airline tickets?

If you do, then you probably have AI anxiety.

Travel companies are quietly deploying artificial intelligence systems, creating an invisible web of automated billing that can cost you hundreds or thousands of dollar…