Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance

What happened

According to The Guardian’s source item, Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance, A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it The real danger that artificial intelligence poses to work is not just job loss – it is the growing divide between people who use AI to extend their skills and those whose working lives are increasingly shaped by opaque, AI-powered systems of surveillance and control. The debate about artificial intelligence and how it will affect workers is stuck in the wrong place. On one side are warnings that machines are coming for millions of jobs. On the other are claims that AI will turbocharge productivity . Both stories miss what is already happening in workplaces across the world, from Britain to Kenya to the United States . Continue reading…

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Source

Primary source: Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance via The Guardian. VINI cites and links the source; it does not reproduce the publisher’s full article text without rights clearance.