> But I just don't see the cause for outrage over this - as long as the system really is focused on the safety of drivers and other road users. > The reference

> But I just don't see the cause for outrage over this - as long as the system really is focused on the safety of drivers and other road users. > The reference to AI in the article makes it sound dystopian, but isn't this potentially better, if it just means that computation is used to detect any issues rather than having humans watching their fellow workers? > [..] what incentive does Amazon have for it to be anything other than this What Amazon (and others doing similar stuff) does is create something of a Panopticon [0] to enforce proper behavior: > Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times. Thus, the inmates are effectively compelled to regulate their own behaviour. > In 1965 the conservative historian Shirley Robin [..] argued that Bentham's pet gadget, the panopticon prison, was a device of such monstrous efficiency that it left no room for humanity. > Recent Libertarian thinkers began to regard Bentham's entire philosophy as having paved the way for totalitarian states. In this regard, as with the Panopticon, it doesn't even matter if the camera's work or there's AI involved. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon