John YonchukFeb 26, 2023
Frank Pasquale
“Instead of saying “employers are using AI to analyze workers’ emotions” we might say “employers are using software advertised as having the ability to label workers’ emotions based on images of them from photographs and video. We don’t know how the labeling process works because the companies that sell these products claim that information as a trade secret.””
https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/artifice-and-intelligence%C2%B9-f00da128d3cd
Feb 26, 2023 at 3:56amWeb
Show threadjack the nonabrasiveFeb 26, 2023
@emilymbender one for Mystery AI Hype Theater, perhaps?
Show threadTanja SchneiderFeb 26, 2023

@FrankPasquale The power of trade secrets rings a bell and reminds me of ethnographic fieldwork and interviews that Jonna Brenninkmeijer and I did in the field of neuromarketing.

We report about ‘Witness and Silence in Neuromarketing: Managing the Gap between Science and Its Application‘ (with Steve Woolgar) in Science, Technology and Human Values https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0162243919829222 #STS

Show threadGraydonFeb 27, 2023

@FrankPasquale "Employers are doing their damndest to stress their employees by subjecting them to something about as accurate as a polygraph, which is to say, not at all, and making that thing have significant real-world consequences".

It's all part of an effort to force people to submit to arbitrary unsafe conditions and should be recognized as the nakedly hostile behaviour of would-be slave owners.