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Can Surveillance AI Make the Workplace Safe?

July 31, 2020 | Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Data, AI, & Machine Learning

Organizations may soon start monitoring employees’ whereabouts and behavior more closely than ever, using surveillance tools such as apps, sensors, and algorithms that scrape and analyze the data people produce as they work. With the help of artificial intelligence, this data can be translated into real-time diagnostics that gauge people’s health and risk levels. That may sound creepy, but there are ethical ways to use AI to promote safety on the job.

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