• @[email protected]
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    575 months ago

    The biggest threat from AI isn’t it going all Skynet on us, but how rich people will use it to the detriment of the rest of us.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 months ago

        Oh don’t you worry, we’ll probably get a nuclear war within the next few decades, it just won’t be caused by an evil AI

      • @[email protected]
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        35 months ago

        I’d honestly prefer skynet. At least it’d be instant we’d be able to fight back

        Against the rich, we have no chance.

  • @[email protected]
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    425 months ago

    All this technology, and none of it is being used to help employees. It’s all being used as weapons to punish them.

    • @[email protected]
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      235 months ago

      And the worst thing is, punishing them won’t even lead to increased productivity so it is entirely pointless.

      • @[email protected]
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        315 months ago

        Because it’s not about productivity, it’s about obsessive control.

        If it really was about productivity, most places would consider 4-day workweeks, flexible time-off, bathroom breaks without punishment, additional training and support to those who need it, a focus on work/life balance, and just basically treating workers like human beings and not robots.

  • Norgur
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    155 months ago

    Since I’m a team leader at Deutsche Telekom (the mother company of T-Mobile btw), here what AI basically does: You know the whole “some calls may be recorded for training purposes” thing, right? Depending on the topic your team does and how many calls that brings with it, it’s rather tiring and time consuming to listen to all of them. AI will analyze the calls and try to point out those that are worth listening to… Or better: those it believes are worth listening to. It’s analysis doesn’t have any weight of it’s own, the team leader still does all the real analysis, feedback, etc. So if the AI is full of shit, the employee doesn’t get punished. If the AI is weirdly biased against someone, it’ll not have any repercussions besides this tool being less useful to me.

    • HobbitFoot
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      45 months ago

      That it if they don’t use AI to replace call center staff.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      Appreciate the real world feedback. Unfortunately, it’s anecdotal and doesn’t really address what other companies may be doing with these tools. It may not even address everything your own company is doing with it. Most places are very compartmentalized, and things like cyber security and performance monitoring tools will be strictly need-to-know.

      • Norgur
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        15 months ago

        That’s something only lawmakers can fix.

        Performance Monitoring Tools cannot be need to know at my workplace. The article talks about our worker’s councils, right? Those need to be informed if any tool is to be used in that regard, they even need to approve many tools before they can be used at all.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    45 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    From algorithms firing staff without human intervention to software keeping tabs on bathroom breaks, technologies including artificial intelligence are already upsetting workers and unsettling workplaces.

    In Europe, unlike in the US and Canada, many unions have been pushing for years for protections against some of the more intrusive ways that AI tools track and manage workers.

    “This issue has yet to be put at the center of the radar for unions in North America,” said Valerio De Stefano, a labor law professor at York University in Toronto, who has written extensively on AI’s use in the workplace.

    Dan Reynolds, the Communications Workers’ assistant research director, said the union has long been concerned about how new technologies affect jobs.

    “In sectors where performance monitoring and algorithmic management are present, you can have a lot of negative impact,” said Amanda Ballantyne, director of the AFL-CIO’s technology institute.

    Employers “recognize that engaging in an inclusive dialogue about using new technologies is critical to fostering a culture of trust with employees”, he added.


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  • Jin
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    5 months ago

    Could be worse, like in China some has surveillance in the bathrooms, so the workers won’t slack off