5 comments

  • Almondsetat 8 minutes ago
    >We conducted semi-structured interviews with 18 UK-based DWs

    This "article" is as good as a blog post

  • gsibble 26 minutes ago
    Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job?

    I get the threat of pervasive AI but this hardly seems like it.

    • swatcoder 12 minutes ago
      That depends entirely on whether you want to culture a humane trust society or a transactional surveillance society.
      • DriverDaily 6 minutes ago
        I’m not sure an absence of surveillance is what creates “humane trust”. I’m certain we had locks on doors and security guards before the internet.
        • feanaro 1 minute ago
          Surveillance is decidedly and completely unlike locks.
      • paytonjjones 6 minutes ago
        I think everyone wants a high trust society but you can't just remove all guardrails and expect that to be the result. The causality goes the other way.
        • newspaper1 2 minutes ago
          I would absolutely support the surveillance of CEOs and board members. They have demonstrated themselves, as a class, to not be trustworthy. I think as a society, we should be reviewing Alex Karp's decision making for instance.
    • geraneum 12 minutes ago
      > I get the threat of pervasive AI

      I think this contradicts with your first sentence.

    • newspaper1 7 minutes ago
      No worker should be surveilled while doing their job. Only weak and insecure management would even consider something like that.
    • thatguy0900 15 minutes ago
      Somehow we've made it the vast majority of human history without it. Or at least surveillance that is generally not great. I would wager real money that there is going to be psychological effects of 100% accurate at all times complete surveillance of a person everywhere outside of their own homes (for now, I'm sure the time is coming for that as well)
    • bigyabai 16 minutes ago
      Forget domestic workers, shouldn't you be surveilled whenever you're alone and unattended?

      When the panopticon is flipped inwards, everyone scrapes together an excuse for why their solitude is more important than others.

      • Spooky23 5 minutes ago
        Exactly. Won’t someone think of the children?
    • fithisux 17 minutes ago
      Then, stay home if you feel unsafe.
  • cs702 37 minutes ago
    The title is really clever in its association of pervasive surveillance with the all-seeing eye of evil incarnate from The Lord of the Rings.
    • bcraven 27 minutes ago
      I'm not sure that's a particularly difficult insight.
      • BoingBoomTschak 21 minutes ago
        I think you're replying to sarcasm.
        • skrebbel 16 minutes ago
          I think you’re mistaking a shallow AI take for sarcasm.
          • jMyles 8 minutes ago
            What a time for Poe's law.
      • calmingsolitude 23 minutes ago
        Eh, millions of households have a smart speaker that's constantly recording and I doubt that the majority of people that use one have truly internalized the ramifications of having such a device at home.
        • esrauch 15 minutes ago
          Can you spell out the ramifications for the plebs?

          As far as I can tell home smart speakers are being used for warrantless mass surveillance, unlike Flock for example. Do you mean the possible future situation where they are?

    • exe34 26 minutes ago
      Give me a recipe for custard pie.