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IIR one of a NeurIPS papers (or similar) was a Walmart Labs paper on "Purpose driven AI Guide for Employees" or similar. Multiple mentions of psychological heal
by mistrial9 3y ago
IIR one of a NeurIPS papers (or similar) was a Walmart Labs paper on "Purpose driven AI Guide for Employees" or similar. Multiple mentions of psychological health in the same paper that describes an AI assistant that is hypothetically required for every employee of a certain stripe, that does give instructions and answer questions.
As a skeptic, the one-sided description of mental health, and the obvious parallel to a "always-on slave collar" jumped out. Is there legitimate use for this kind of employment technology?
As is so common, those most incentivized to produce and deploy such a thing, are the exact character that is not to be trusted with such an invasive machine. It just screams of a need to regulate, to my western culture eye.
- dpflan 3y agoCan you locate the paper you're alluding to?
- kj4211cash 3y agoI work in Tech at Walmart and the funny thing is that of all the places I've worked they do the least in terms of surveying employee satisfaction. If they just asked, I and many of my colleagues would be happy to tell them which people and policies are toxic and which are wonderful. There's broad agreement in the rank and file on much of this. There are some truly awful and some truly wonderful things about the way Walmart manages tech. When I mentioned this to my VP, the response was basically that Walmart top level management didn't want to know some things because they might be compelled to act. Maybe all this "AI" rigamarole is just a way for Walmart top level management to get information without being legally or morally obligated to do anything?