AI: Efficiency Booster or Worker Tormentor?
Grab yourself a bowl of popcorn and prepare for an AI blockbuster as we examine how artificial intelligence is dominating the American workplace in both alarming and advancing ways.
Key Points
- AI’s spread across America’s economy is rapid and omnipresent – so far-reaching that most of us don’t even realize it’s already transformed countless jobs, often not for the better.
- Over at e-commerce giant Amazon, the robots are reportedly holding exit interviews. Warehouse and delivery drivers shared chilling tales of AI-driven bots giving them the boot sans human intervention.
- It’s not just pink slips – it’s bathroom trips under surveillance, too. Some companies think it’s high time to monitor loo-break duration with AI, and workers aren’t too excited about getting watchful peepers in their cubicles.
Final Thoughts
In AI we trust, indeed! While boosting efficiency is a solid plus, it seems artificial intelligence may have taken a bit of a sci-fi dystopian turn. Is this the brave new world of workplace automation we signed up for? Popularity contest rules: may the more human(e) technologies win – those that improve our work lives without giving us the creeps. And for Pete’s sake, let’s be reasonable about bathroom breaks. Turing would be turning in his grave if he knew his beautiful invention was timing toilet trips!
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/29/ai-workers-layoffs-surveillance
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