cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/tech@piefed.world/p/2035912/amazon-uses-ai-surveillance-to-monitor-union-risk-in-uk-warehouses-internal-documents-s
This is why corporations want AI so badly. If they can’t use it to replace you, they will use it to control you.
Couldn’t we all just agree to unionize anyway?
No, we can’t, that’s literally what Union busting is - intentionally adding as much friction as possible to people agreeing on that very thing. Perhaps we would if we could but powerful forces work such that we can’t, even if it could be argued we ought be allowed.
They’re trying to use this to identify those most likely to organize/join first so they can fire them before they do. That’s the whole point, stopping it before they can even start
The future is looking bad.
Big companies have always used unionbusting activities. The reason why most transferrable fully automatic machine guns are owned by companies was because machine guns were used for union busting.
“Attention residents: miscount detected in your block. Cooperation with your Civil Protection team permits full ration reward.”
On program!
