{"id":242643,"date":"2026-08-13T01:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ai-is-making-daily-life-more-expensive-at-least-for-now-heres-why"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:33:56","slug":"ai-is-making-daily-life-more-expensive-at-least-for-now-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ai-is-making-daily-life-more-expensive-at-least-for-now-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"AI is making daily life more expensive, at least for now. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-making-daily-life-more-expensive-at-least-for-now-heres-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AI boom is proving complicated for everyday Americans. It\u2019s raising the cost of living and stopping the Fed from lowering interest rates. It is making some things faster and easier, but it is also changing how we live.<\/p>\n<p>If other inflation drivers, such as tariffs and the Iran war, don\u2019t drive prices higher from here, many economists think the inflation picture could brighten.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInflation remains uncomfortably high, but it\u2019s moving in the right direction,\u201d says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody\u2019s Analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI boom is proving complicated for everyday Americans. It\u2019s raising the cost of living and stopping the Fed from lowering interest rates. It is making some things faster and easier, but it is also changing how we live. If other inflation drivers, such as tariffs and the Iran war, don\u2019t drive prices higher from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}