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flag Woolworths New Zealand is launching an AI shopping assistant using Google’s Gemini to personalize recommendations, raising concerns about transparency and bias.

flag Woolworths in New Zealand is upgrading its chatbot Olive with Google’s Gemini Enterprise AI to create a personalized shopping assistant that helps with meal planning, budget deals, and special occasion shopping using seven years of customer data. flag While customers will still approve purchases, the tool shifts decision-making to AI, raising concerns about reduced consumer choice, algorithmic bias favoring certain brands, and long-term reliance on automated recommendations. flag Experts warn the gradual rollout may subtly influence spending habits without clear transparency, despite Woolworths’ claims of privacy protections and user control. flag The feature is expected to launch later in 2026.

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