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Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices
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Schools across the U.S. are rolling out AI-powered surveillance technology, including drones, facial recognition and even bathroom listening devices

The surveillance fostered an atmosphere of distrust: 32% of 14 to 18-year-old students surveyed said they felt like they were always being watched. In focus groups run by the ACLU, students said they felt less comfortable alerting educators to mental health issues and physical abuse. Marlow argues that’s a lousy tradeoff. “Because kids don't trust people they view as spying on them, it ruptures trust and actually makes things less safe,” he said. submitted by /u/tekz [link] [comments]
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NET 0 LOSS – I am becoming increasingly concerned for people who are about to lose their jobs as AI platforms that are much more robust start to roll out. I am not hearing ANY discussions of how we can save jobs or reassign workflows – This is ALARMING

In enterprise AI workloads are beginning to unleash. As I witness this process the cuts are coming and they are brutal and should not be ignored. For me personally, I feel there is one key aspect in the industry that is being grossly ignore. How do we increase actual productivity by not just automating jobs away but allow for workers to increase workloads and productivity by doing more than what they could have done before because of the benefit of AI. Online, you hear good talking points about how it could go but in the real world there is no softlanding I am seeing. You hear things like this will increase the the productivity but it's a net 0 loss if you only automate but don't actually increase productivity by the workforce you have. On one hand AI tools are helpful to the upper echelon...
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