How Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages
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Aware uses AI to analyze companies' employee messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communications services.

Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages::Aware uses AI to analyze companies’ employee messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communications services.

  • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    In a two-party-consent state, maybe.

    But in a one-party-consent state, all that Personnel Human Resources People Ops will do is point to a clause in your onboarding paperwork where you agreed to be recorded while on company property using company telephony equipment as a condition of your employment.

    • Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      As long as that’s in the employee paperwork it protects companies from some liability, but what about customer-employee or customer-customer conversations picked up by the system? I suppose a sign stating that video and audio conversations being recorded would further lessen employer liability but I imagine in the future laws about AI technology used on those convos will be put in place and the use of surreptious AI conversation analytics in retail environments will be more regulated. For now though it sure seems like a free for all and I wouldn’t be surprised at unethical use becoming somewhat common.