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#AI and #algorithmic management are increasingly used to monitor and control worker productivity, creating more exploitative workplaces. Despite #union awareness, responses to these technologies remain inadequate, focusing on transparency rather than the fundamental issues of managerial power and worker agency. To effectively resist, unions must adopt innovative tactics and address the broader implications of these systems.

jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-algorit

jacobin.comMeet Your New Robot BossMany have long worried that AI and robots will replace workers. But less attention has been paid to the increasing use of algorithmic systems to manage workers — creating ever more authoritarian and exploitative workplaces.
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So, the best way to reach more people on the #fediverse is to create a new post, preferably at a different time of day than the original post you're publicizing. This way people will see the link again even if they already saw the original, and it has a chance of reaching people in a different timezone.

This is why we need an #algorithmic #timeline; #chronological timelines encourage posting more low-quality content.

I don't know what shocks me more:

the fact that "Europe's first ever intelligent video #surveillance system" is installed in a German region governed by the Green party @GrueneBundestag which is supposed to defend civil liberties.

Or the staggering certainty with which the engineer #MarkusMüller at #FraunhoferSociety thinks his surveillance wet dream of unlimited realtime knowledge about public spaces is somehow good.

Article about #algorithmic #video surveillance: algorithmwatch.org/en/mannheim

AlgorithmWatchIn Mannheim, an automated system reports hugs to the police - AlgorithmWatchMannheim, a large city on the Rhine, deployed a video system that claims to automatically detect physical violence in some streets. It can confuse hugging with strangling, and it is unclear whether it can actually prevent violence.