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According to a new report, the rise of artificial intelligence has allowed some companies to pay workers variably for the same work, which has been coined "algorithmic wage discrimination." Companies like Uber and Amazon that use contracted labor collect extensive data on their contractors, such as where they live and what jobs they are likely to accept, and then use these metrics to determine pay. As a result, some of these contract workers have claimed their employers are gamifying work and manipulating them, because there is information asymmetry that keeps workers in the dark about how their pay is determined. Additionally, contract workers claim their bargaining power is being undermined by these practices because employers have insight into how they think and what jobs they are willing to accept to meet their financial needs.