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The problem with Blue-collar work under AI is that your white collar AI manager can fork itself and have infinite time to micromanage you. I foresee people bei

The problem with Blue-collar work under AI is that your white collar AI manager can fork itself and have infinite time to micromanage you. I foresee people being asked to wear AR glasses and/or work in a digital camera panopticon to be constantly evaluated on performance and compliance with (disconnected and disaffected) policy (imagine if your checkbox-first-results-never corporate compliance officer can design new checkboxes 100x as fast as a human one could have). When the machines can real-time analyze and provide "corrective" feedback or "training" to a pool of juniors who don't feel like they deserve rights or pay and have never even heard of a union, the value of skill in labor drops to nothing, and only people who are able to perform blind obedience will be valuable in the market. If management is infinite heartless machines chasing profit motive, then every job becomes Amazon Fulfillment on steroids. No-one will be spared.

SoftTalker 1y ago
Why do you think they would not hear about unions?
- pilooch 1y ago
  Because they'd never hire, but subcontract down to the bone.
  - quickthrowman 1y ago
    Plenty of large companies only hire union contractors for electrical, mechanical, and plumbing systems (aka skilled trades, or trades that can damage a building if installation is done poorly)
Gud 1y ago
If you say so. I will continue to get shit done and get paid well. You take care of the checkboxes mate
insane_dreamer 1y ago
> I foresee people being asked to wear AR glasses and/or work in a digital camera panopticon to be constantly evaluated on performance and compliance with (disconnected and disaffected) policy No need to foresee; this is already happening. Remote surveillance of work performed, with an AI determining, based on realtime video or photos, whether you performed the job correctly or not. Some companies are doing this now, particularly in industries where it's expensive to send someone out to fix something if it wasn't done exactly right the first time. But it's easily applied all down the line.

SoftTalker 1y ago

Why do you think they would not hear about unions?

pilooch 1y ago
Because they'd never hire, but subcontract down to the bone.
- quickthrowman 1y ago
  Plenty of large companies only hire union contractors for electrical, mechanical, and plumbing systems (aka skilled trades, or trades that can damage a building if installation is done poorly)

Gud 1y ago

If you say so. I will continue to get shit done and get paid well. You take care of the checkboxes mate

insane_dreamer 1y ago

> I foresee people being asked to wear AR glasses and/or work in a digital camera panopticon to be constantly evaluated on performance and compliance with (disconnected and disaffected) policy No need to foresee; this is already happening. Remote surveillance of work performed, with an AI determining, based on realtime video or photos, whether you performed the job correctly or not. Some companies are doing this now, particularly in industries where it's expensive to send someone out to fix something if it wasn't done exactly right the first time. But it's easily applied all down the line.