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Except it's an AI making decisions and flagging people who may then be the recipient of adverse actions.



News flash: there used to be entire departments of humans that did this (and in some companies there still are).

Your corporate comms are monitored and there is no privacy.


This is the part that I don't get.

15 years ago I worked at a place where there was an entire room of people who were hired to literally do nothing but read your internal mail all day. One of the deployment rules were to make sure they had unimpeded access to everything (except for executives of course). Please don't misinterpret me as suggesting I like the practice.

I can see why people are upset that this technology is being offered, I am too. But I can't see why people are suggesting it's a new low for corporations that have always been doing this.


Not to mention upwards of 75 years of science fiction literature that discussed the inevitability of this.

The only solution that I can see: Exploit the system….




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