#AI in Workplace

[marciodpaulla-blog]

Through the Digital Lens: How Communication Technologies are Reshaping the World of Work

As we navigate the evolving digital workspace, let's embrace technology while valuing human connection. Remember, we're not just part of this story, we're its architects. Together, we'll shape our shared digital future.

Once upon a time, in a world not too far away, nestled in the crux of the 20th century, there was an office. It was an office like any other – buzzing typewriters, clattering fax machines, and the perpetual hum of the telephone. Work was a set-piece in a monotonous diorama, the landscape of which was limited by cubicles and nine-to-five schedules. Fast forward to the 21st century, and a subtle,…

[mobileapptechnology]

Artificial Intelligence in workplace and It's Benefits

Artificial intelligence is nothing new. It has been slowly penetrating various industries and verticals to replace traditional methods and practices. The need for digital transformation has made artificial intelligence a key investment tool for many businesses. Forbes reports that 50% of businesses intended to invest more in AI and make it part of the everyday work environment.

Nearly 83% of companies have increased their funding for AI and ML since 2019. As time goes on, more companies adopt artificial intelligence (AI) tools to streamline operations and stay competitive.

The Covid-19 pandemic has further increased the number of young children. Remote and collaborative teams are putting AI at the forefront. Digital transformation always brings a number of changes to the workplace. The first factor to consider here is employee reaction.

What does a company's adoption of cutting-edge technology mean for the workforce? What alterations does AI make to the workplace? How can managers make operational procedures better while letting staff know about the changes? How ai is transforming the workplace? Let's investigate.

How is artificial intelligence changing the workplace?

Electronics that are both analog and digital have long been used in the workplace. These robots' intelligence takes AI a step further in its efforts to lighten human workload and increase output. However, employees will likely be wary of cutting-edge technologies like AI.

Management must first educate and convince employees of the value of using AI in the business. An integrated workplace where employees and technology move together will be better equipped to deliver on expectations.

Artificial intelligence can be part of different departments within an organization. It can be used by incoming employees and upper management. Data collection, analysis, and reporting are the three main areas of AI.

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Artificial intelligence's advantages in the workplace

Increase productivity

Artificial intelligence is being used by businesses to boost employee productivity. The automation of repetitive tasks across a company is a benefit of artificial intelligence (AI), allowing personnel to focus on challenging work, original problem-solving, and sophisticated solutions.

AI-driven chatbots have emerged as a practical choice for teams that frequently contact customers and depend on prompt, accurate, and responsive customer service.

The time needed to manually complete these duties, from information gathering to starting the process of reporting customer complaints, has been greatly reduced by chatbots. The general client experience has also improved. The potential of human error in your customer service procedures will be decreased by eliminating administrative activities.

Even though they still lack the human element, chatbot interactions sound more and more like real discussions.

Chatbots won't take the place of human customer service agents, but they can make their jobs easier by automating repetitive tasks. In order to give better service, customer support staff can now leverage AI tools that use behavioral psychology.

People will be more effective and content at work as a result, and business profitability will increase.

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Increased efficiency

 AI can help employees be more efficient by automating tasks that can be completed quickly and accurately with the help of computers. It also eliminates the chances of business errors. AI can help employees be more productive by providing tools that can automate tasks and provide recommendations on how to improve their work.

Improved decision making

 AI can help employees make better decisions by giving them faster and more accurate information than humans can. AI helps turn complex data sets into meaningful insights that can identify changes in patterns and trends, consumer behavior, and much more.

AI Enhances Data Security And Information

“Catch Me If You Can,” starring Leonardo DiCap

rio, a film in which he portrays Frank Abagnale, a con man who swindled people out of millions of dollars. But Abagnale eventually turned his life around, confessed to his wrongdoing, was briefly jailed, and eventually joined the FBI to help catch more crooks. Abagnale later founded his own security company and has worked as a security consultant for more than 30 years.

“What I did happened nearly 50 years ago, and it’s about 4,000 times easier to scam people today than it was when I did it,” he said in his Google story.

A data security breach exposes a large amount of personal information, and most of the time, the company responsible is unaware of the breach.

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell

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"National conversation" sounds like one of those meaningless buzzphrases – until you live through one. The first one I really participated in actively was the national conversation – the global conversation – about privacy following the Snowden revelations.

This all went down when my daughter was five, and as my wife and I talked about the news, our kid naturally grew curious about it. I had to literally "explain like I'm five" global mass surveillance:

https://locusmag.com/2014/05/cory-doctorow-how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-mass-surveillance/

But parenting is a two-way street, so even as I was explaining surveillance to my kid, my own experiences raising a child changed how I thought about surveillance. Obviously I knew about many of the harms that surveillance brings, but parenting helped me viscerally appreciate one of the least-discussed, most important aspects of being watched: how it compromises being your authentic self:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/may/09/cybersecurity-begins-with-integrity-not-surveillance

As I wrote then:

There are times when she is working right at the limits of her abilities – drawing or dancing or writing or singing or building – and she catches me watching her and gets this look of mingled embarrassment and exasperation, and then she changes back to some task where she has more mastery. No one – not even a small child – likes to look foolish in front of other people.

Learning, growth, and fulfillment all require a zone of privacy, a time and place where we are not observed. Far from making us accountable, continuous, fine-grained surveillance by authority figures just scares us into living a cramped, inauthentic version of ourselves, where growth is all but impossible. Others have observed the role this plays in right-wing culture war bullshit: "an armed society is a polite society" is code for "people who make me feel uncomfortable just by existing should be terrorized into hiding their authentic selves from me." The point of Don't Say Gay laws and anti-trans bills isn't to eliminate gender nonconformity – it's to drive it into hiding.

Given all this, it's no surprise that workers who face workplace surveillance in the name of "wellness" feel unwell as a result:

https://www.ifow.org/publications/what-impact-does-exposure-to-workplace-technologies-have-on-workers-quality-of-life-briefing-paper

As the Future of Work Institute found in its study, some technologies – systems that make it easier to collaborate and communicate with colleagues – increase workers' sense of wellbeing. But wearables and AI tools make workers feel significantly worse:

https://assets-global.website-files.com/64d5f73a7fc5e8a240310c4d/65eef23e188fb988d1f19e58_Tech%20Exposure%20and%20Worker%20Wellbeing%20-%20Full%20WP%20-%20Final.pdf

Workers who reported these negative feelings confirmed that these tools make them feel "monitored." I mean, of course they do. Even where these tools are nominally designed to help you do your job better, they're also explicitly designed to help your boss keep track of you from moment to moment. As Brandon Vigliarolo writes for The Register, these are the same bosses who have been boasting to their investors about their plans to fire their workers and replace them with AI:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/advanced_workplace_tech_study/

"Bossware" is a key example of the shitty rainbow of "disciplinary technology," tools that exist to take away human agency by making it easier to surveil and control its users:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/01/bossware/#bossware

Bossware is one of the stages of the Shitty Technology Adoption Curve: the process by which abusive and immiserating technologies progress up the privilege gradient as their proponents refine and normalize dystopian technologies in order to impose them on wider and wider audiences:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware

The kinds of metrics that bossware gathers might be useful to workers, but only if the workers get to decide when, whether and how to share that data with other people. Microsoft Office helps you catch typos by underlining words its dictionary doesn't recognize; the cloud-based, "AI-powered" Office365 tells your boss that you're the 11th-worst speller in your division and uses "sentiment analysis" to predict whether you are likely to cause trouble:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

Two hundred years ago, Luddites rose up against machines. Contrary to the ahistorical libel you've heard, the Luddites weren't angry or frightened of machines – they were angry at the machines' owners. They understood – correctly – that the purpose of a machine "so easy a child could use it" was to fire skilled adult workers and replace them with kidnapped, indentured Napoleonic War orphans who could be maimed and killed on the job without consequence:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/12/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk/

A hundred years ago, the "Taylorites" picked up where those mill owners left off: choreographing workers' movements to the finest degree in a pseudoscientific effort to produce a kind of kabuki of boss-pleasing robotic efficiency. The new, AI-based Taylorism goes even further, allowing bosses to automatically blacklist gig workers who refuse to cross picket-lines, monitor "self-employed" call center operators in their own homes, and monitor the eyeballs of Amazon drivers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

AI-based monitoring technologies dock workers' wages, suspend them, and even fire them, and when workers object, they're stuck arguing with a chatbot that is the apotheosis of Computer Says No:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no

There's plenty of research about AI successfully "augmenting" workers, making them more productive and I'm the last person to say that automation can't help you get more done:

https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/augmented-workforce

But without understanding how AI augments class warfare – disciplining workers with a scale, speed and granularity beyond the sadistic fantasies of even the most micromanaging asshole boss – this research is meaningless.

The irony of bosses imposing monitoring to improve "wellness" and stave off "burnout" is that nothing is more exhausting, more immiserating, more infuriating than being continuously watched and judged.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/15/wellness-taylorism/#sick-of-spying

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[therobotmonster]

Meet Mrs. Natalie Nice...

Natalie is a hard worker in one of today's high-end scientific fields. Why, her boss wouldn't know where the test tubes were kept if not for her tireless efforts! Well, not quite tireless...

She's quite tired. Mrs. Nice has been burning the candle at both ends to impress the boss, and she's about to make a terrible mistake because of it.

Can you spot the mistake Mrs. Nice is making?

That's right! Carelessness in the workplace has consequences!

That wasn't coffee! (good) Coffee doesn't glow green!

Whoopsie! Now Mrs Nice is Mrs. Naughty...lus! Nautilus.

And Mrs. Nautilus is not happy!

By not watching what she was doing Natalie has wasted her whole lunch break turning herself into an abomination of science. All without noting dosage, temperature, and other important factors, not to mention completely circumventing the double blind protocol. Her data is completely invalid for the larger project.

Don't be a Mrs. Nautilus, be a Mrs. Nice! Remember:

Take regular breaks, get plenty of rest, and-

-If the Goo's Alight, it's Not alright!

Drinking glowing goo is the 1% cause of monsterism in adults ages 18-35, please science responsibly, a message from your friends at Cocytus Comics.

Each pic used a different prompt around the basic format of:

Secretary with a bob-haircut, redhead, green blouse and pearls, , , comic panel by Jack Kirby and Alex Toth, 1968, in the style of 60s Marvel

a secretary with lavender skin, tentacles for hair, , , comic panel by jack kirby and alex toth, 1968, in the style of 60s marvel

[ai-higurashi]

Get in loser, we're going shopping

[corruptedcaps]

Moral Objection: Final Part

Read part one here

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The next day Keira forced herself to wear the drab boring clothes she had worn for years. She was now a woman of taste but she couldn’t give her cards away to Elissa just yet. She needed to know how she could turn back into her better self permanently so had to act like her dorky self to do it.

“Keira, you look different. Have you done something to your hair?” Elissa scowled at her suddenly appearing. Keira suppressed a smirk, knowing that Elissa was noticing something different about her even in her plain appearance meant that she was well and truly changed. She felt rotten to the core and it made her wet but she couldn’t expose her true intentions yet. Quickly adopting a more slouched demeanour she turned to Elissa.

“N-no I d-don’t think so.” Keira said, maybe putting the stutter on too thick but Elissa seemingly bought it as she roled her eyes and grabbed Keira by the wrist into her office.

“Ok slut Jack wants us to check a few things on this new contract you were supposed to get him to sign last night. Fucking close this deal alright?” Elissa said with distain as she scrapped Keira’s arm and Keira felt the unmistakable pleasure of her transformation beginning once again. This time it happened in record time. Her mind was already where it needed to be so her body quickly caught up. In fact she seemed to get even more beautiful than before, as if her new personality was willing the transformation to be even more comprehensive.

Keira stretched out her new and improved body with glee. She felt strong once again but she felt even badder than before, her mind was awash with evil schemes and plans she couldn’t wait to enact. She turned and faced Elissa who appeared to notice the new more dominant look on her face and seemed to shrink in comparison. Keira’s intense stare made her look away as she pretended to be busy with stuff on her desk.

“Ok get going, you can’t stay like this for long remember?” Elissa said trying to act nonchalant. Unfortunately for her she didn’t notice Keira creep closer to her.

“Can’t I?” Keira said with a menacing whisper into Elissa’s ear. Before Elissa could respond she felt something cold and hard knock her out.

Groggily Elissa woke up sometime later. She knew she must have been out for sometime as it was now dark outside. Getting her bearings she realized she was strapped to her office chair with her hands tied to rests. Weirdly her hands were also in a pair of oven mitts. Locking at the clock on her wall a sudden chill went through her spine as she realized the time and she tried in vain to struggle free.

“It won’t do you any good my dear." Said a velvety voice from the dark corner. Suddenly the corner lamp switched on revealing Keira sat in a chair with a self satisfied smirk on her lips. She was clad in Elissa’s most expensive outfit and it looked perfect on her.

“Let me out of this Keira! You can say goodbye to ever becoming a hawt sexy bitch again!” Elissa spat with venom but Keira remained unfazed.

“I think we both know that’s not the case. In fact in a few short minutes you’ll be begging me to turn you.” Keira said with a grin as she rose from the chair. Elissa’s eyes went wide, Keira couldn’t possibly know, could she?

“It’s actually ingenious how you do it and how you kept me in the dark about it but you see now that I embraced the inner bitch in me it became obvious that you weren’t this solely mystical bitch with these magic nails that you controlled. No, you were a victim of their curse just as much as I was. I don’t know who first turned you but you clearly realized that all it took to remain gorgeous was a little…” Keira said before running a sharp nail across her own skin, which opened a wound that quickly closed once again. Keira shivered with delight. “…Scratch”

“You bitch! You don’t know this power! My power! How dare you think you can have it!” Elissa yelled making Keira laugh.

“In a few short minutes you’ll turn back into whatever loser you were before and I’ll be the sole owner of this power! My power! You’ll beg me to change you back and I’ll take immense pleasure it denying you it!” Keira said with a knowingly smile.

The clock struck 5PM and Elissa felt something she hadn’t felt in years. Her body started to rumble and constrict in pain as it she’d the beauty and power she had cultivated. She felt the confidence and superiority sap from her body as her boobs deflated and her stomach grew larger. Her hair grew thin and broken and she felt the nails under the mittens before boring and dull once again. Keira couldn’t help but laugh.

“Oh my god you’re even more worthless looking than I thought, this is too good!” Keira smirked gloating at her. Elissa started to sob.

“No this isn’t fair! Give it back!” Elissa said pathetically. It made Keira wet to see her former superior be so inferior. There was a knock on the door and Keira pulled herself away from the joyous sight of her nemesis’ demise to answer it. Opening the door she welcomed Jack into the room who was slightly bewildered by the sight but had his main focus on Keira.

“You ready to go darling?” He said pushing her hair behind her ear.

“So is this it? You take my power, take my job, have me fired? Is that your plan?” Elissa said in between sobs. Keira looked at her with disdain.

“See that’s the problem with you Elissa, you had this massive power but your vision was so small. You can keep your silly job, I’m leaving the firm and starting my own with Alphabraun as my number one client. I’ll have this firm bankrupt and will absorb it into my new venture within the year. Why would I settle for being a cog when I could own the whole machine?” Keira said with a deadly serious look on her face as she leaned in close to Elissa so only she could hear the next part.

“And just between us girls, I’m going to take Alphabraun from this idiot and have them investigate these wonderful nails so I can become a permanent bitch. Once I have the formula, I’ll sell the opportunity to become a bitch to the highest bidders. I can already picture what I’ll call the line of fake nails. ‘Cursed’. Don’t you just love it.” Keira said in a whisper leaving Elissa shocked.

Keira returned to Jack’s side and slide her hand into his pants, “Come on big boy, I’m horny.” She said leading him away by his member, much to his pleasure, leaving Elissa still tied to the chair, a weeping mess.

THE END

Special thanks to @lsat (discord: thedivergence, Twitter: LSAT1886) for generating some of the images in this chapter.

[sciderman]

You reblogged ai btw with the pink Spider-Man

maybe this power can be used for good

[living-space-design]

[fenharael]

The next 5 days are going to suck incredible ass but it will only be 5 days and then I'll be home

[karokawwo]

ok well possible ts burnout aside a while ago i got the idea of putting the cast in the world i'm writing and I think id like that it'd by like making them my ocs

[christialoban2000blog]

[echofromtheabyss]

I think that a big thing that characterizes Firstian life is that every interaction fundamentally rests on your position within a nebulous, amorphous cloud of relationships, some of which will be entirely online. And that your entire life is defined by your position and placement relative to individuals and identities as opposed to brick and mortar institutions. And also, your entire world is based on placement within a spectrum of what are basically client/patron relationships and a lot of the currency - if you're moving in a world that is downstream of richer patronage - is social and gift economy. And much of this will be downstream of algorithms and engagement and metrics.

Firstians are children of the Algorithm, Twentians are children of the Clock.

[surrealistictechtales17blog]

[juanitazunino1965blog]

[devsgames]

I think it's absolutely insane to see prolific artists who have been taking incredibly hard-line stances against the use of machine learning technology suddenly shit talking the deal that WGA workers struck - you know, the landmark one which massively limits the use of AI in their craft in general to the point it's largely assistive and no longer dominates the conversation.

Sorry...are these artists upset that a subsection of creative workers successfully organized to put limitations on the use of machine learning in a way that doesn't undermine them as creatives and also guarantees their livelihood, on their own terms???? Is that not the thing that everyone should want out of this outcome????????