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Amazon’s AI Warehouses Isolate Workers and Hinder Union Organizing, New Report Finds (www.404media.co)

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Amazon’s use of AI and robotics in its warehouses isolates workers and negatively impacts union organizing drives, a new report finds.

The report, conducted by Oxford University research team Fairwork and the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, aimed to explain how AI impacts warehouse workers by interviewing employees at robotic Amazon warehouses in the U.K.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's already being done to the general populace, especially now with sophisticated algorithms tailoring social media posts to individual needs. It's gonna get worse with LLM-powered chatbots