04.16.25 AI Can Cost You / Waste Not When Dining Out

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.6 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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AI is spreading fast - too fast. Can you trust the answers you get? Clark relates how trusting AI can cost you time and money. Also, consumers are leaving money on the table when eating out. Asking for a doggy bag? No shame in that game! What’s RIGHT about leftovers. AI Warning: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 To Go Box: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: Gen AI's Accuracy Problems Aren't Going Away Anytime Soon, Researchers Say Elliott Report: Home Should You Respond to Class-Action Lawsuits? Best Rewards Credit Cards: Top Picks for 2025 NYTimes: Is the Doggy Bag Dead? Should I Be Concerned That I’m Receiving Mail at Home With Someone Else’s Name? How To Save on Travel With Google Flights What Condo Owners Need To Know About Insurance Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com / Ask Clark Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Picture a hash brown. Yep, there it is. Right there. Would you look at that? A golden oval of
0:09.9	crispy deliciousness. From where? Well, you already know. Breakfast, done properly.
0:18.6	Served until 11am. Here's the truth about AI.
0:22.2	AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into.
0:25.8	ServiceNow puts AI to work for people across your business,
0:29.6	removing friction and frustration for your employees,
0:32.8	supercharging productivity for your developers,
0:35.7	providing intelligent tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform you can use right now.
0:43.4	That's why the world works with ServiceNow. Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people.
1:07.4	It's great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where, you know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you so you make better financial decisions in your life.
1:15.9	And you can't go anywhere without hearing AI, AI, AI, AI. But can you trust the answers you get? Well, trusting AI can actually cost you time, money, or have you make bad decisions. And also consumers are literally throwing money away right now in numbers too large to ignore.
1:38.8	And I want to talk about that later in this podcast and YouTube show. So I love elliot.org.
1:48.8	It's a consumer advocacy organization that talks about individuals having specific problems
1:56.8	with generally large companies that are not treating them right.
2:03.6	Elliott.org recently had a post about a problem a guy named Jason had with Expedia.
2:12.0	And so Jason buys a trip, and Expedia now has its own AI that is a virtual agent that's there with you
2:20.4	is you're shopping around.
2:21.9	Don't know if you've experienced this with Expedia.
2:25.5	And so the virtual AI says, this AI chatbot says, you know, you can cancel this with no risk within 24 hours for a full refund.
2:39.0	Literally it says he could cancel the package within 24 hours.
2:44.2	Literally the words it says is full refund.
2:47.1	So he does the booking over 3,500 bucks,
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