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New York Times AI surveillance DX

Seventy eight percent of companies are now running AI surveillance on their employees. This includes screenshots every few minutes, keystroke logging, emotional state scoring during Zoom calls, and productivity algorithms deciding who gets promoted and who gets fired. The bossware market hits 4.5 billion dollars this year. And this week, the company leading the legal fight against unauthorized AI just got caught doing it to their own people. The New York Times, the same institution suing OpenAI for billions over using content without consent, secretly deployed AI tools to monitor and score 700 of their own engineers without telling them. The tool is called DX. It tracks output, efficiency, and how often employees use AI. Then it generates a productivity score that feeds directly into performance reviews. No disclosure or consent. Their workers just filed legal action against them for it. The engineer who led the complaint put it plainly: "Our work takes human judgment and problem solving that cannot be accurately assessed by AI proxy metrics. It creates a skewed, inaccurate picture of what we actually do." The New York Times published the Brookings Institution study warning that AI is creating potent new tools for employers to monitor and surveil workers, undermining autonomy and power. Then they deployed those tools on their own staff the same year. AI surveillance is already the default. Sixty one percent of companies already use AI powered analytics to score productivity and 75 percent monitor physical workplaces with biometric data. Cornell researchers have already documented the fallout, algorithmic scores that bear no relationship to actual performance quality, used to justify terminations with zero explanation beyond the metrics. Amazon has run this playbook on warehouse workers for years. And the same scoring system is now inside the laptops of knowledge workers at one of the most prestigious media institutions in the world. The companies that cry about AI ethics in public are quietly deploying AI surveillance internally. And every company that talks about responsible AI has a dashboard somewhere rating their employees. This is the pattern across the entire industry right now.

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New York Times AI surveillance DX

Seventy eight percent of companies are now running AI surveillance on their employees. This includes screenshots every few minutes, keystroke logging, emotional state scoring during Zoom calls, and productivity algorithms deciding who gets promoted and who gets fired. The bossware market hits 4.5 billion dollars this year. And this week, the company leading the legal fight against unauthorized AI just got caught doing it to their own people. The New York Times, the same institution suing OpenAI for billions over using content without consent, secretly deployed AI tools to monitor and score 700 of their own engineers without telling them. The tool is called DX. It tracks output, efficiency, and how often employees use AI. Then it generates a productivity score that feeds directly into performance reviews. No disclosure or consent. Their workers just filed legal action against them for it. The engineer who led the complaint put it plainly: "Our work takes human judgment and problem solving that cannot be accurately assessed by AI proxy metrics. It creates a skewed, inaccurate picture of what we actually do." The New York Times published the Brookings Institution study warning that AI is creating potent new tools for employers to monitor and surveil workers, undermining autonomy and power. Then they deployed those tools on their own staff the same year. AI surveillance is already the default. Sixty one percent of companies already use AI powered analytics to score productivity and 75 percent monitor physical workplaces with biometric data. Cornell researchers have already documented the fallout, algorithmic scores that bear no relationship to actual performance quality, used to justify terminations with zero explanation beyond the metrics. Amazon has run this playbook on warehouse workers for years. And the same scoring system is now inside the laptops of knowledge workers at one of the most prestigious media institutions in the world. The companies that cry about AI ethics in public are quietly deploying AI surveillance internally. And every company that talks about responsible AI has a dashboard somewhere rating their employees. This is the pattern across the entire industry right now.

3mo